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Ok, not really a help question unless someone does have some code they want to share. More of a question if anyone has tried the Map Widget with the GPS for realtime location tracking, and if so how well did it work?
I have a concept for an app but it would require 20-30 map markers all loading real time (or close to realtime) location placement. I am just wondering if the map widget is up to it or if I need to look into a different library (Im hoping the map widget can do it).
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> More of a question if anyone has tried the Map Widget with the GPS for realtime location tracking, and if so how well did it work?
I implemented a tracking app a while back before MobiOne included the map widget. It worked ok. I had to force my phone not to sleep. I also wired it with an elevation web service. I used it when hiking. Kind of a poor-man’s gps device when I was up in colorado hiking last year near breckenridge.
One thing to note is that map widget is implemented using google maps api. Thus if you use it you agree to google’s terms of use. That is why there is an explicit acknowledgement. Having said that, google requires you notify them if you distribute an app that provides realtime position plotting using the map api.
Wayne,
Do you think the speed would be ok for something like that? I will be using a sql backend to store and retrieve info. I have also been looking into Yahoo maps API, but I think it would be easier with map widget. It wouldnt have to be ‘realtime’, but would have to be relatively soon updating.Well, after talking with Google Maps people I probably wont be using their API in my app, the cost is way to high. I am now looking into Yahoo, Bing and MapQuest to see the data rates (so far I think Bing is winning…)
I’m trying to do something similar and I’m messing around with the google maps api’s. well I found an app wich somehow conects to the google navigation “map/service” (…at least that’s what it looks like to me). It’s pretty cool but I don’t know if it is part of their application or if it conects to the google navigation that is installed on my tablet….? So how do they do that…?
