Cool

Well, I had a bit of a break though today! Using the laptop, the wireless network around my house, the GPS device, and IraqiAlert, I was able to actually use AE to do location aware. I walked around the back yard and entered in what IraqiAlert said the lat/lon was via the web site. I then moved all those locs to the Beta Group and had IraqiAlert use that… and it worked!  It was able to distinguish between the back porch and the door to my back office.

Some issues:

- A know one, in that commercial GPS isn’t THAT exact. I need to do some more testing to get a handle on it. My biggest issue was, standing in one place for a while got several (close) results from the GPS device.
- I missed a decimal point in the DB (DOH!) which initially screwed things up (it couldn’t tell what was close, as missing that decimal makes everything look like miles I think). Fixed it.
- The VB has problems. Primary in the COM stuff I think (not a big shocker there). Need to play around with it some more.
- Using the laptop is a pain, as it’s big (known one)
- Need to get a simple data entry and current location program written

So, it went well over-all. Took about 1 ½ hours to correct some initial problems, but the last couple of tests went well. The biggest stopping point is the VB app at this point (hangs, not reading COM, et al).