Who's Agitatin' My Dots?
You've all seen the commercial, right? On a whim, I decided to see if I could do some live GPS tracking using Google Maps. Of course, rather than grep the web, I decided to just try to do it on my own. Turns out, it can be done pretty easily. I was able to throw something together in less than an hour. Now, this is a pretty crude example, all it does right now is every 10 seconds I move the marker to a new location on the map, and draw a line from my last point to the current one. But you can imagine how, with a little bit of work, you could track, say, your delivery trucks, city garbage trucks *cough*, etc. All with very little work and (best of all) for free! I'm not quite finished with the page, though. Since I have an EV-DO card now, I am gong to write a tiny app to use my Geko 201 to capture my GPS location as I drive and upload the coordinates to my site, then you'll be able to track my position as I drive around. I won't have this working for a couple days, time allowing, so for now you'll just see the random spot generator. You can see it here.
And don't agitate my dots.