Hello, I'm the author of bbTracker, so obviously I'm biased
MobileTracker (and the price it costs) was the reason I wrote bbTracker. I simply could not understand how such a simple program should cost that much. And I always wanted to do some J2ME programming ...
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Originally Posted by tonyr
bbTracker: this new program got off to a promising start. The visual display of the track, elevation and speed profiles are wonderful to look at. However, I used the new version (0.3.0) for a couple of long rides the past few days and was extremely frustrated that there is a bug that prevented me from saving the tracks.
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Yes, I'm painfully aware of this one (see
this bug entry) and I'm planning on fixing it in the next few days.
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Originally Posted by tonyr
Once this bug is fixed, then the only other annoyance is that it does not reliably connect with the GPS puck.
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I've got a similar issue with the internal GPS (I don't have a puck, so I can't test that), that's filed as
Issue 10 in my bug tracker. I don't know if that's the same issue and (more importantly) if the fix is the same, but I'm planning to release such a fix in the next days as well, so I'd appreciate if you tested that.
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Originally Posted by tonyr
So... I'm still waiting for the perfect solution. I don't know if it's possible for the developers of GPSTrack and bbTracker to collaborate and share code, but that would be a killer program!
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That is definitely possible, because both programs are released under the Gnu General Public License (yay, for
Free Software!). If anyone wanted, he/she could take the code of both programs and put the pieces together, anyway that's wanted.
The reason I didn't use GPSTrack back when I searched for such a tool was, that it only supports external devices. I did a few half-hearted attempts at adding JSR-179 support (read: internal and external GPS devices), but modifying is harder and (more importantly) less fun than writing a new one
One might even be tempted to port the GPS access of GPSTrack over to bbTracker as an option to what bbTracker does right now (this is what I would/could do) or go the other way around (which wouldn't be nearly as much fun to me, but which might be easier).
regards and let's hope that someday a perfect solution will exist.