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TOMTOM Navigator for USA

Hi Folks,
I am currently using TTN3 with UK and MRE. It is using a TomTom Bluetooth GPS and all works great with no probs at all. I am going to the USA on business at the end of the month. Does anyone know a way I can use it with tomtom maps of the USA without having to buy TOMTOM Navigator USA, but instead add maps to the TTN3. I think it would be wrong if I had to purchase the whole application again just because I fly over the big pond to the states.

Would you like a copy of DeLorme street atlas, I have the handheld version and the pc/laptop version.
DeLorme, makers of Street Atlas USA announced XMap Handheld - Street Atlas USA - Edition, a complete mapping program for the entire U.S. that lets users bring detailed, up-to-date street-level maps and directions on either Pocket PC or Palm OS handhelds.
With most handheld mapping software, users need to plan routes on their desktop PC before they set out on their trip. XMap Handheld Street Atlas USA Edition's unique feature of creating and managing address-to-address routing directly on the PDA is easy, providing the added security of always having exactly the maps needed and allowing for last-minute changes on the road. The enclosed desktop CD, with maps of the entire U.S., lets the user decide what kind of maps and how much coverage area they want to bring on the handheld. The software shows the amount of memory for each map prior to downloading. Users simply load as many maps as they want directly on the handheld or removable storage cards, and then quickly find directions and phone numbers to local restaurants, hotels, and much more.
XMap Handheld Street Atlas USA Edition provides detailed vector-based maps so users can search for their address book contacts, place names, streets, cities, or choose from categories including 4 million places of interest including hotels, ATMs, restaurants, gas stations, attractions, and more, most with phone numbers. Enter start and finish points on the map and the software automatically calculates the quickest or shortest route and displays a detailed map or written directions.

that would be great if you could. please send me the details and i will get in touch.

Just send pm.

Hi there. I have sent you a PM (i think) are we any further along in solving this one..

I need your details for posting.

Harrier Location API

I've got a ppc-6601 (harrier) from Sprint and I'm trying to develop a program to use the location information - hopefully gps coords. Any idea on how to get that info? The program will basically be a location connector - converting phone location info to nmea sentences so any mapping program out there will be able to use the location info. The big question is, how do I get that info from the phone?

Is this a HTC product?

I once looked a (if I remember correctly) Swiss product that was able to show th current location based on the cell-info from the gsm radio.
The trouble seems to be that you need a map calibrated with gsm cell-info.
Remember: you wount get a more detailled specification of the location than approx. 200 metres.

I believe it's built by HTC, but branded by Audiovox. Sprint uses cdma, so the usual gsm location stuff isn't gonna work. Sprint uses the qualcomm/snaptrack technology - gpsOne. Sprint/Qualcomm got a java api out there for MIDP 2.0 phones, but I'm not sure if it'll work w/ ppc phones. This api gives you alot of info - including gps coords. http://www.shaftek.org/blog/archives/000139.html
So any ideas?

The carrier must have a location server online, currently Sprint and Verizon's LBS servers are not ready for point-to-point relay of LBS data.

An Australian based company has managed to extract this info from windows ce devices. From their web site (www.locatrix.com) it also seems as though this kind of service is supported on all mobile phones.
Pretty cool I thought.

HickHack said:
An Australian based company has managed to extract this info from windows ce devices. From their web site (www.locatrix.com) it also seems as though this kind of service is supported on all mobile phones.
Pretty cool I thought.
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Uh, no. That program relies on tracerouting your IP address, and, if available, using their proprietary LBS API that if you want to route into GPSOne, you get to do on your own.

No, it doesn't use traceroute. I've got an i-Mate device here on Vodafone determining location to within 100m. The external API is for other/desktop applications (such as CRM, field management, mapping etc) that may wish to display the device's location.
Friends of mine have also tried their clients for Blackberry and Symbian OS with similiar results...

HickHack said:
No, it doesn't use traceroute. I've got an i-Mate device here on Vodafone determining location to within 100m. The external API is for other/desktop applications (such as CRM, field management, mapping etc) that may wish to display the device's location.
Friends of mine have also tried their clients for Blackberry and Symbian OS with similiar results...
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Well, on the GSM side it has more options (I was referring to the Harrier and CDMA), such as locating the location of the tower and using signal fade information to make a best-guess estimate. Depending on where you live, and how close towers are spaced, it can get pretty close.

Announcing: costpad.com - Log your purchases - view community prices

Hello fellow XDA-developers!
I just wanted to announce another pet project: -->costpad.com<--
It is a purchases logging service that I wanted to develop as a "supermarket companion", but it can be used for any kind of purchases.
The basic philosophy behind it is: "By logging your purchases, you keep a track of your expenditures and at the same time you inform the community of the price of the products you bought".
The site is in active alpha stage, but in a minimal useful condition (my girlfriend and I use it daily).
As all community-based sites, the "chicken-and-egg" problem exists: The site's value increases when users use it, but users use it only after it has gained enough value... For now, the database is tiny and basically contains products/shops found near me, here in Greece , but I hope I have made it easy enough to add more content.
Features:
- Submit/Log your purchases
- View your basic monthly/overall spending statistics
- Separate accounts
- Shop map location
- View product's latest market price
- View product's cheapest vendor
- Smart shopping lists (automatically remove/decrease items when bought)
- Finger friendly for touchscreen devices
To come:
- "Downloading" a shopping list via SMS to your mobile (for low-tech, no data-plan users. I already use it)
- Automatically "solve" the shopping list "equation" and propose the cheapest nearby location to buy the items
- Coupling with Barcorama is on its way naturally... The vision: "Return home from the supermarket and use your pda to quickly+accurately log the purchases..."
- Voting system to filter out the bad/inaccurate information
- Automatic logging of purchases (e.g. using Paypal receipt emails)
- Pocket-IE friendly
- Database security: encryption of user private entries
- Own data export/import
- Bug fixes!
I will be glad to hear any comments... but please, don't be too cruel, I'm not a web developer actually..
have fun
P.S. I do all the development/hosting on my own home server, so expect slow speeds...

fellow XDAers,
I just wanted to bump this thread by reporting some developments..
- costpad calculates the "best" shop to go buy your shopping list items. Based on distance, item availability and ofcource price
- smart product and shop search. Try using multiple keywords in the product and shop boxes
- browser friendly OpenSearch. You can add costpad as a search engine to the search box. In firefox e.g. press the searchbox icon and select "Add Costpad"
- coupled with Barcorama. You can use barcorama to scan a barcode and "quickly" submit an relevant purhase. Network access is required for that, so charges may apply...
- more unified GUI
what do you think? check it out... http://costpad.com
have fun,
hypest

[REQ][DEV] Map My Run App

There has been increasing demand for a windows mobile version of imap.
iMapMy (powered by MapMyFitness is a location-based application that uses the built in GPS technology on your iPhone to allow runners, cyclists, (or any outdoor fitness activity) to track their daily training data, including:
* Total Time
* Total Distance (in miles or kilometers)
* Pace (minutes per km/mile) or current speed
* Average Speed / Pace (km/mile)
* View your running maps directly on your iPhone
* Training Log including Distance, Calories Burned, Time, and Date
* Add Your Workout to Twitter
Some requests have been sent into the map my run team, but I was wondering if some of the amazing people here might be able to develop this. Maybe people have been using g-watch and uploading their gpx files to the mapmyrun website, but the application would be pretty convenient to have, and hopefully more accurate than the geocatching on g-watch. That being said, g-watch has been amazing!
I am not a programmer and cannot offer much as far as help beyond testing, but I am sure the app would be greatly appreciated by me and the map my run community (who I would surely share this with).
Please respond or PM me if you are willing to take up the challenge or have any ideas or suggestions.
Thanks.

Hi!
There are actually (at least) two applications available on the WinMo platform that has some of the requested features.
1) Ageye G-Watch (that you obviously are aware of)
2) GPS Cycle Computer v3
None of the above mentioned applications have all the features of iMapMy, but I guess that this are the two best candidates to adopt new features, because both applications are free (GPS Cycle Computer is even open source). I guess that you could contact the authors and discuss further development.
Regards,
PK

Thanks for the suggestions! I am putting GPS Cycle on my phone right now. I am going to see about hooking the developers and mapmyrun to get a fully integrated mapmyrun app too.

You might also want to check BikeDashboard:
http://bikedashboard.mathieugardere.com/
It also has some of the features you requested. And a little donation to the developers might help to convince them to put in the rest of these features

Check out www.sportypal.com
I use RunGPS trainer which is brilliant (but paid), downloaded sportypal yesterday and it looks like it may have some similar features and its free.

I also recommend RunGPS. It has more features than I need, really (routing, heart rate monitor etc), but I do like the options for lap detection, voice output of various stats, map and route downloading from multiple sources and a very thorough (if not very aestehtically pleasing) portal to upload information to ( http://www.gps-sport.net , although it can also upload to a couple of other independent sites)
It doesn't have Twitter integration afaik, but there are widgets and static images that you can put on websites with some information.
If there's one feature that I miss from Nokia Sportstracker on Symbian, it would be using the accelerometer as a pedometer. This was pretty accurate on my old N95, even when just walking.

have you tried track my run?
click me

in germany there is smartrunner, its covering all of your needs:
http://www.smartrunner.de

+1 for SportyPal.
You can actually track your run/bike/rollerblade etc, then upload it to your sportypal.com page, and view the stats. You can even share it with your friends!!
(PLUS ITS FREE!)

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have so much research to do now! I am also going to share this trhead with the peeps over on the mapmyrun forum so they can take a look at all the optison they have.

Kind of redundant
I think Sporty Pal just saved me from buying a garmin. Now I just need a armband for my fuze and Im ready to roll!
+1 sporty pal
Now I just have to find out if it has some kind of virtual runner =)

Wave 3 - TomTom

h__p://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/01/11/samsung-bada-wave-3-tomtom-gps-embed-dream/
Android smartphones are blessed with Google Maps, and we have always said that this mapping system is very good, but now it is time for TomTom to make its debut on handsets by way of integration.
TomTom satellite navigation specialists have announced that they want to establish themselves more in the smartphone market, and step away from providing apps and concentrating more into embed its maps within the company’s Samsung Bada Wave 3 smartphone.
Samsung provides Google Maps on Android devices as said above, but now a new partnership with TomTom will provide stunning and enhanced content, 3D Landmarks and 3D City Maps will makes it way onto the Wave 3 handset, other main features will include live road conditions, traffic incidents, accidents and navigate around traffic jams.
Moving away from apps and embedding its GPS directly into the Android operating system is what we call the embed dream.
What does it mean? TomTom is coming to bada 2.0?

z|-|ero said:
h__p://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/01/11/samsung-bada-wave-3-tomtom-gps-embed-dream/
Android smartphones are blessed with Google Maps, and we have always said that this mapping system is very good, but now it is time for TomTom to make its debut on handsets by way of integration.
TomTom satellite navigation specialists have announced that they want to establish themselves more in the smartphone market, and step away from providing apps and concentrating more into embed its maps within the company’s Samsung Bada Wave 3 smartphone.
Samsung provides Google Maps on Android devices as said above, but now a new partnership with TomTom will provide stunning and enhanced content, 3D Landmarks and 3D City Maps will makes it way onto the Wave 3 handset, other main features will include live road conditions, traffic incidents, accidents and navigate around traffic jams.
Moving away from apps and embedding its GPS directly into the Android operating system is what we call the embed dream.
What does it mean? TomTom is coming to bada 2.0?
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Of course Wave I and Wave II will come out empty like it is with almost all the other Bada 2.0 apps

z|-|ero said:
h__p://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/01/11/samsung-bada-wave-3-tomtom-gps-embed-dream/
Android smartphones are blessed with Google Maps, and we have always said that this mapping system is very good, but now it is time for TomTom to make its debut on handsets by way of integration.
TomTom satellite navigation specialists have announced that they want to establish themselves more in the smartphone market, and step away from providing apps and concentrating more into embed its maps within the company’s Samsung Bada Wave 3 smartphone.
Samsung provides Google Maps on Android devices as said above, but now a new partnership with TomTom will provide stunning and enhanced content, 3D Landmarks and 3D City Maps will makes it way onto the Wave 3 handset, other main features will include live road conditions, traffic incidents, accidents and navigate around traffic jams.
Moving away from apps and embedding its GPS directly into the Android operating system is what we call the embed dream.
What does it mean? TomTom is coming to bada 2.0?
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Route 66 uses TomTom maps and navigation
http://corporate.tomtom.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=549627
TomTom Maps and Location Content
ROUTE 66 selected TomTom as the provider of map data for ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation to ensure its users the best possible mapping and navigation experience available. For this brand new app, ROUTE 66 is using TomTom maps, and a wide range of location content such as 3D City Maps, 3D Landmarks and Premium POIs.
"We are extremely pleased to provide a critical component in this compelling new ROUTE 66 application," said Maarten van Gool, Managing Director, TomTom Licensing. "Our maps rate very highly in terms of quality and reliability, and are updated daily via millions of GPS system users worldwide, who help to track and validate changes in real time."
"ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation provides the future of navigation, today," said Paul Warmer, ROUTE 66 Vice President Marketing. "And it's also great fun to use. Everyone who tested our new product, became hooked on the unique Follow Me feature, which we believe is a major step forward in making navigation more intuitive and a lot more fun."

here samsung means tom tom will be available for wave3 and not for bada2,0