A while ago I tried to track myself using GPS and my Xperia WM6 phone using Googles Latitude. The system works, but I had no control over the updates and found, after a while, it seemed to stop updating altogether.
Now you may ask why I would want to track myself ? Well, it’s simple really. It’s not for me but for the Kitn! When I ride my bike home from work we are out of contact and she gets a tad worried about me biking through rush hour traffic.
So now you know my reasoning, on to my method!
Using VB.net I wrote a simple program which gets my GPS location and then posts it to our webserver, which in turn shows the Kitn my location using Google Maps API. Unlike Google Latitude, I have complete control on how often I can update my position (which is every 30 seconds).
The Kitn did suggest I may want to make the program available, but for now I guess I will see if anyone requests it before I go hacking it up for general use.
So, if you do, get to commenting!
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Hello! I liked your project on gps tracking, e actullay had a assingmenton how to make one so I would like to know how you did it and what components you used?
You have some nice articles on alot of diffrent subjects and I enjoyreading them though some of them could use some rewriting or more meat in them if you understand
// ilizane
Hi Ilizane, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
The components used were my X1 phone (which has a gps device already built-in) with a program I wrote in VB.net (which pulled in the gps data via the com port) and then sent that data via a web page request passing the variables in the url which were then saved in a mysql database. The result was that someone could load the webpage and see my most current location.
As for our articles, we do tend to get lazy 
so yes I can understand what you mean by needing some attention or more meat.
