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04-07-2007, 05:03 PM
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GPSTrack. FREE app to export track logs to SD card
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Click here: GPS Track
I didn't see this anywhere on the forum. It's a simple app. Took a little while to get it installed on my pearl, but then it was easy to connect to the bluetooth GPS. Allows for track logs to be exported to SD Card as .kml, .gpx, or .csv files. Shows basic trip info, distance, average speed, average elevation.
Took a nice 5 mile run this afternoon with the puck in one jacket pocket and the pearl in the other, and I watched a flyover of my route on Google earth about 3 minutes after I got home.
I haven't tried using a kml file, but the gpx files work great. Simply export the track log as a .gpx file, open google earth, then open the gpx file.
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04-07-2007, 09:31 PM
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How did you install this? Which file, from where, how? I've got an 8800 and looking for something like this but so far with the install, no joy.
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04-08-2007, 12:13 AM
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The .jar file from GetJar worked for me.
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04-08-2007, 08:41 AM
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Can you post some screenshots and instructions on how to use this with Google Earth?
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04-08-2007, 08:48 AM
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04-08-2007, 08:57 AM
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Wirelessly posted (9900: BlackBerry8800/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102)
This won't work on 8800 unless you have a BT GPS puck. It doesn't support the internal GPS just like microsky.
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04-08-2007, 09:35 AM
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Close but no cigar. I've been looking for something exactly like this, that would work with the 8800 internal GPS and act as a GPS logger or Geocacher. I had asked about this type of app on pinstack [can't post url].
I could see many uses people would have for this, for hiking, running, and what I would like to use it for, to make a log for geocoding photos.
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04-08-2007, 10:17 AM
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After a battery pull reboot it seems to be ok on the 8800 with a BT puck. I will give it a spin later.
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04-08-2007, 07:40 PM
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Will this display the basic sattelite info?
If not is there any freeboware that will display the basic stuff like a satellite map, speed, longitude latitude or maybe degree of precision?
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04-15-2007, 12:44 PM
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Stinsonsdog, any update? Did you get a chance to play with this? Is it positive that this needs a puck and won't work with the internal GPS?
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04-15-2007, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Big Ed
Stinsonsdog, any update? Did you get a chance to play with this? Is it positive that this needs a puck and won't work with the internal GPS?
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No setting for internal GPS so I think you need a puck. I have not tested it due to my BB getting crashed by the colorpearl app and now I am back up and running but gotta go back to work tomorrow. Will give it a try in due course.
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04-16-2007, 06:10 AM
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on their web site they say "a bluetooth GPS required".
I have asked the developer if this tool will support the 8800 as well.
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04-26-2007, 08:13 PM
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I got this response from the developer and hope its ok to post here, can anyone shed any insight on this:
Thanks for using GPS Track, I'm glad you like it.
It certainly makes sense to use the internal GPS if you have one. It isn't that common, since you are the first person to ask for this feature. The internal GPS would have to be available from Java (JSR-179 Location API). According to the J2ME Polish site, here are the Blackberry 8800 capabilities:
J2ME Polish: BlackBerry/8800 J2ME Specification
The 8800 is not on the list of devices supporting the location API:
J2ME Polish: Devices supporting the Location API
So I think it wouldn't work for you, unfortunately, unless the J2ME Polish site is wrong about the 8800.
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04-27-2007, 07:43 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ed
I got this response from the developer and hope its ok to post here, can anyone shed any insight on this:
Thanks for using GPS Track, I'm glad you like it.
It certainly makes sense to use the internal GPS if you have one. It isn't that common, since you are the first person to ask for this feature. The internal GPS would have to be available from Java (JSR-179 Location API). According to the J2ME Polish site, here are the Blackberry 8800 capabilities:
J2ME Polish: BlackBerry/8800 J2ME Specification
The 8800 is not on the list of devices supporting the location API:
J2ME Polish: Devices supporting the Location API
So I think it wouldn't work for you, unfortunately, unless the J2ME Polish site is wrong about the 8800.
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Ed,
The 8800 supports jsr 179(location api), but j2me Polish(which is a developement tool), may not have it supported yet....
Kelly
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04-27-2007, 09:36 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Ed
I got this response from the developer and hope its ok to post here, can anyone shed any insight on this:
Thanks for using GPS Track, I'm glad you like it.
It certainly makes sense to use the internal GPS if you have one. It isn't that common, since you are the first person to ask for this feature. The internal GPS would have to be available from Java (JSR-179 Location API). According to the J2ME Polish site, here are the Blackberry 8800 capabilities:
J2ME Polish: BlackBerry/8800 J2ME Specification
The 8800 is not on the list of devices supporting the location API:
J2ME Polish: Devices supporting the Location API
So I think it wouldn't work for you, unfortunately, unless the J2ME Polish site is wrong about the 8800.
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Maybe you can refer him to the US site and then we would be able to use our internal GPS.
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04-27-2007, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Stinsonddog
Maybe you can refer him to the US site and then we would be able to use our internal GPS.
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It's not Polish(as in Poland), but polish(as in shine).....Confusing I know!
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04-27-2007, 07:47 PM
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I will reply to the developer with this info and see if I get anything back.
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04-30-2007, 09:23 PM
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Any way to allow it to continue running in the background? Everytime i receive a call or check an e-mail, it stops and I have to start it again....
Thanks!
Tim
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05-12-2007, 07:22 AM
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Does this work with the 8800 or no? Anyone actually get it to work?
I have been lookin for something like this forever..... Would be awesome when I go biking or snowboarding down the mountains...>!!>!>!>!>!!!!
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05-12-2007, 07:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by superdisco
Does this work with the 8800 or no? Anyone actually get it to work?
I have been lookin for something like this forever..... Would be awesome when I go biking or snowboarding down the mountains...>!!>!>!>!>!!!!
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Not with the internal BT, but yes with a BT puck.
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