Trip

I’m planning on taking a trip home to MI this Labor Day. As I’m driving, it would be a perfect time to get some GPS coordinates. I’m not sure exactly what I can have up and running by them, but I’d like to do something. Even if it’s just a local store of data on a lap top, using a hand-held GPS

LOL

I just love being able to re-use stuff. Using the powerful WFC XML wrappers I wrote for NZ, and the RS URL wrappers, I’ve been able to call my .NET GPS Service. I’m able to request a distance around a loc, and get back a list and process it, from a little MFC application. While I was pretty sure it would work, it’s nice to validate it.

Once I’ve got the XML standards down, I can focus on writing the Windows Test App (and then the GPS interface).

App

The first service is up. A loc can be passed, along with the # of feet to calculate, and a list is returned of stuff around that loc. So, in theory, I can just expand upon that and start writing client software. The input is a URL; the output is a XML document

I’ve gotten to the point where I need to formalize all the things that can be done in AE. Right now, the user ID is passed into the stored proc, and it returns all locs in that users groups. Do I want to keep it at that level? Do I want to be able to have the user get all groups, a specific group, or several groups? I need to formalize error handling, and the overall format of the XML document returns.

I’m going to write a quick WFC application to verify that the XML feed is working.