Monday, February 25, 2008

Finally some forwards motion

The GPS receiver arrived today and thus ensued many hours of unproductive fun until I decided to RTFM. It turns out that it works incredibly well, he said as he stared down at himself on Google Maps. Unfortunately the receiver doesn't appear to have the Ion Cannon functionality installed.

Once the excitement of the receiver had died down I started coding and now have a fully functioning home-baked GIS system. It calculates a bounding circle and searches for bookmarks in a ~60m radius around the user and returns the most likely location.

In the event that there are numerous possible locations I intend to add vector calculations to find which bookmark the user is most likely close to but that is for another day.

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