• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Integrating GPS Position onto Website?

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Not sure if this is the proper forum for this, but I am at a roadblock when it comes to integrating my GPS position onto my website. I want to be able to use the Google Maps API on the site and have my position on the center of the map. The GPS position map will be inside an IFRAME and will automatically refresh every 2 minutes or so. Is there any way I can get the GPS information from my GPS to my website? I see that some of you have your own custom made programs, but I have very minimal experience with only Visual Basic at best.

Any suggestions?
 
There are several ways of getting GPS data to your site depending on how you're interfacing with the GPS unit.

Lots of HAMs are using APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) for which there are several sites that record your reporting data into a database.

The other option is if you can write the data out to another program or even just to a flat file, you can quickly write a VB program that checks the data in the file and then dumps it to a database or flat file on a webserver that is polled by an AJAX request.

What kind of GPS do you have now and how are you interfacing with it? If nothing else, hit me up in PM or on AIM, this is something I've wanted to do and would open to some collaboration.
 
Right now I use a USB GPS and run it into the GPSGate program.

It has been so long since I have written a VB program (I have made programs that created flat file text files and have done a program that used a GPS). I will definitely need a refresher as I don't know how to get the data from VB to a webserver (FTP), and then let the Google Maps API read the file and then show the position.
 
There are many ways to do it. Visual Basic is probably the easiest to get data from a GPS. Once you have your data, you have to get it to the webserver somehow, whether it be by FTP or using a script of some sort.
 
It is an infowindow. You can look up infowindow in the google support or look at my source code. Instead of having the html in the infowindow argument itself, I put it in an iframe. That way I am able to have an autorefresh of the image.
 
I don't know much about it either. It took almost two months for me to get it to this point. I looked at a lot of examples, trial and error, and getting help from some people on this board. The forum on the gpsgate site is a good place to ask questions as well.
 
I meddled with GPS tracking and got it working using the Microsoft Mapping - I wrote a simple software app that runs on the laptop and handles the GPS upload to my server back home in the UK - here I ingest the GPS positions into a MS SQL database where it can then be retrieved and plotted on a map. The advantage or storing the points in a database is that it then provides a history of where you have been. Over all the project was a success - but I never quite got around to making the site look pretty.

http://www.stormtrack.co.uk/gps/Private/Main.aspx

Last year I had almost 10 different trackers running but these days I just use the spotter network.

Please PM me if you want any of the source code (C# .NET2)
 
Has anyone tried (or currently using) the free "buddy tracker" through gpsgate? We have attempted to try this route and failed miserably! The part that we can't figure out is where to paste the three html codes. It gives you a main code, a code to paste within the body, and a code for the disclaimer. We are trying to do it in word press… Can this be done in word press? We also tried the Google map route but could not get the gpsgate program to send our data to the Google map. I am nowhere close to being a programmer and neither is my chase partner. We are trying to find a simple way to do this that will produce an html code for us that we can easily copy and embed into word press. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 
I signed up for the spotter network last winter and it has really helped me relay more reports of what is going on out in the field. Great software! So how do I get my location sent to our web site?
 
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