Live Tracker

[Randall Cooper]

MODS- Please forgive me if this in the wrong spot, I figured this topic would fall under equipment category.

Where can I find whatever I need to put a live tracker up on my site, kind of like the one that tornadovideos.net uses, one with the radar imagery and whatnot, I've tried looking everywhere but I can't find anything. Does anyone know anything about it?

 

[Chris Lott]

Are you looking for something like the APRS software that will track your position?

 

[Skip Talbot]

Are you a programmer? If so, use Franson GpsGate to send your GPS position to a website and write a javascript based webpage that puts a Google Maps marker on a map for you. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

Otherwise, I'd have a look at: http://franson.com/gpsgateserver/
Looks like the vehicletracker program does some of that work for you.

You could also have your position tracked on a national map with other spotters:
http://www.spotternetwork.org/

 

[Randall Cooper]

I already have spotternetwork, i was just wondering how to put a map up on my website.

 

[cedwards]

As Skip said the easiest way to do this is with GpsGate.
I have a page that uses this HERE.
If you want to get into programming it, you can customize it with whatever you want including radar.

 

[Randall Cooper]

thats exactly what i want to do. but how do i get the map onto my site?

 

[Skip Talbot]

thats exactly what i want to do. but how do i get the map onto my site?

That's why I asked if you are a programmer. You are going to have to go through the source code of that webpage, copy out the map, and modify it to work on your own webpage. This is not a trivial task if you are unfamiliar with HTML, javascript, and PHP.

 

[John Erwin]

thats exactly what i want to do. but how do i get the map onto my site?

Hi Randall,

The easiest way to do this is to use a snippit of HTML to call your position from FindU. This is assuming you are using APRS however, although there's a way to get your position into the APRS stream without actually transmitting APRS data (would need to do some research on that aspect as I can't remember off the top of my head how to do that).

Just put this bit of code into your web page (substitute the CALLSIGN with your own callsign of course).

<iframe src="http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/gmap.cgi?call=CALLSIGN&aprsworld=1"scrolling="no" width="720" height="551"></iframe>

EDIT: Damm, can't get the message to stop shortening the code above; make sure you "hover" the pointer over the linked part of the text above to get the whole hyperlink

If you need anything else than this you need to check out those links of Skip's above. There's a lot of custom solutions out there that simply use the Google Map API plus your position data; but they do involve some work on your part to get working.

 

[David Drummond]

That's why I asked if you are a programmer. You are going to have to go through the source code of that webpage, copy out the map, and modify it to work on your own webpage. This is not a trivial task if you are unfamiliar with HTML, javascript, and PHP.

Not to mention it would be theft of intellectual property, i.e. Copyright. Source code is subject to copyright laws as well. Something of course all of us on this forum are respectful of, right?

 

[Chris Nuttall]

As far as getting a map for your website, anybody can obtain a key to use the Google Maps API in their website. Then, it's just a matter of inserting (which they tell you how to do) and then writing some code to plot your position and radar.

 

[Scott Bennett]

Randy, here is that link I gave you this morning in spotterchat http://gpsgate.com/index.php?id=143 in case you lost it.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Stan Olsen made a really great "How To" on making an APRS tracker for your personal website. He's got step by step instructions on this post on his old forum...

http://stansweather.net/oldsite/forum/showthread.php?t=70

 

[J Kinkaid]

Where do I go to find the nexrad code ?