Aug 21 2007

New Gmap sidebar widget on my blog!

Published by Rich Pav at 1:07 pm under General

Lately I've been having a thought nagging at me, waking me up in the middle of the night.

"I'm not smart enough. I don't have enough skills."

There are lots of ways I could be…more. Maybe it's because I'm pushin' 40 and I'm not where I expected to be by now.

To make a long story short, I decided to write a little program that lets me use my GPS enabled mobile phone to update my whereabouts on that little map in the right hand sidebar of my blog. It took a bit of studying PHP and WordPress source code over the past week or so, but I feel better now. Proud of myself. I like making things that I can share with others.

[tags]emo, geek stuff, programming[/tags]


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10 Responses to “New Gmap sidebar widget on my blog!”

  1. # Lon UNITED STATES Mac OS X Safari 522.12.1 on 21 Aug 2007 at 1:58 pm

    bravo!

    keep playing!


  2. # Rich Pav JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on 21 Aug 2007 at 3:35 pm

    Looks like the marker gets put about 50-100 meters from where I was actually standing. But that's good. It'll keep stalkers from finding me. :-)


  3. # mike UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on 21 Aug 2007 at 4:34 pm

    pretty cool :p and if someone steals your phone, might be handy o_oa


  4. # Rich Pav JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on 21 Aug 2007 at 4:43 pm

    My phone can create a URL with my GPS coordinates in it, which I mail it to a secret e-mail address. A PHP script checks the mail every 5 min, and munges the Japanese URL into a Google URL, yada yada yada, and it ends up on the page.

    So it's not updating my location in real time. Even if my phone could do that, the packet charges would bankrupt me in a day.


  5. # Lon UNITED STATES Mac OS X Safari 522.12.1 on 21 Aug 2007 at 8:57 pm

    …+ unlimited data plan + realtime update = NSA'sParent's dream


  6. # Garrett JAPAN Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0 on 21 Aug 2007 at 11:51 pm

    Thanks, Rich, now my stalking of you is a lot easier, even if I do have to search a 50 square meter radius.

    Anybody know where I can find an unguarded horse in Koga?


  7. # Lon UNITED STATES Mac OS X Safari 522.12.1 on 23 Aug 2007 at 12:28 pm

    not sure if you can, but it would be cool if you could add some text to the location info - context is everything!


  8. # Rich Pav JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on 23 Aug 2007 at 12:33 pm

    @Lon: It's next on my TODO list. I also want to keep a record (on another page) of the places I've been, when, and what I was doing there.

    Right now I have it pointed to Naha Airport, where that Taiwanese plane burst into flames.


  9. # Lon UNITED STATES Mac OS Netscape Navigator 4.79 on 23 Aug 2007 at 12:44 pm

    cool! looking forward to seeing what you come up with.


  10. # Lon UNITED STATES Mac OS X Safari 522.12.1 on 28 Aug 2007 at 12:13 pm

    I just noticed that your Gmap widget now has time & text — Great job!