Free GPS Tracking Software for Handhelds and PDA’s
HOW TO USE -- GOOGLE EARTH -- PROPERLY WITH REPERION
This document explains how to use GPS Tracking Software and Devices
from Reperion to follow persons or vehicles in real time via Google Earth!
Reperion enables you to upload your GPS positions and/or tracks in real time. You can also log your positions and upload them to the server at a later time. You can send audio and pictures, receive location based content, search for nearby websites, send i-SMS to other users or the website, track and navigate to your friends from your PDA using the waypoint function. You can do a lot more really.
You need PocketReperion™ free for consumers, it runs on PocketPC2003/WM5/SPV/Symbian (AFtrack)
You need to get your Reperion client working. That is, you need an account,
you need to setup your client with your account and password, and you need to update the server with your tracks…be it online via GPRS or UMTS/WiFI or offline at home via ActiveSync. Then goto this page :
and enter your account name in the tracking box. Click the “track” button.
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ACCOUNTNAME |
You will be presented with this a page giving you the option for PDA and BIG maps. Choose for the BIG MAPS. Then , when all goes well, you will see this page, with your account of course, not mine :
TO USE GOOGLE EARTH take the red link displayed under the picture… the link has the format : http://tracker1.reperion.com/images/yourusern@me.kml
Copy this link to your clipboard, you need to enter it in Google Earth !
Start up Google Earth and open ADD NETWORK LINK, then copy and paste your link into the link box and give it a nice name above it :
Then you need to set the Google
Earth network link refresh and view parameters. The most important switches are
“Fly to on Refresh” and Update Periodically. Ideally, for tracking people close
up, use the Fly To On Refresh option as we have the server configured to zoom
in and tilt nicely.
If you want to control the view yourself DO NOT use fly to on refresh.
The refresh parameters should be above 16 seconds, setting it lower is useless as the server seldom servers faster that once per 16 seconds.
here’s
how you ideally configure for close up follow tracking without user input. The
server tells Google Earth to tilt 45 degrees and zoom in to a couple of hundred
meters, and autofollow the target.
If you DESELECT Fly To On Refresh, Google Earth will STILL GET THE UPDATES, but your target might drive off the map if you don’t manually follow it. Just track a live target and switch between the modes and you’ll understand what we mean.
Happy tracking in Google Earth!