Tag Archives: software

Improving GPS accuracy with EGNOS

One of the things we learned from our field trials this August was that the on-board GPS in our Android phones (HTC Desire, Nexus One) doesn’t resolve position as accurately as we’d like, often only achieving a 10m ‘accuracy’ (as … Continue reading

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Drupal Hack: Getting Pages and Images from Different Servers

One of the issues with running the OTIH system over a distributed network of static and mobile devices is the lower bandwidth available at the mobile end.  It is therefore important to figure out the best ways to make use … Continue reading

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OTIH Surface Application – Work in Progress

Development of the application that students will use on the Surface is progressing well. Here are a few screenshots showing the different modes and functionality: The first pilot study of the whole OTIH system ran successfully today, with this Surface … Continue reading

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Applications for Android

Here’s a quick review of the applications we’ve looked at for the Android phones for Out There In Here, now that the latest HTC Desire handsets have been delivered. Some of these applications may need downloading as .apk files and … Continue reading

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Location tracking with Big Brother GPS.

A slightly obscure Android application called Big Brother GPS allows us to track the location of a phone by displaying the output of the phone’s GPS receiver. A PHP script on a web server will display the location and show … Continue reading

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Video Streaming with Bambuser, part 2

Live video over WiFi and HSDPA. Last Friday we tested several video streams from the Nexus One to the Open University using both WiFi and 3G/HSDPA. The streaming software Bambuser on the phone proved to be easy to use and … Continue reading

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Video streaming with Bambuser, part 1.

Site survey with Cell Mapper and Iperf. Tomorrow I plan to stream some video over both wifi and 3G/HSDPA links from the Nexus One to the Open University using Bambuser. Today I used Android software tools Cell Mapper and Iperf … Continue reading

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Nexus One: cool tools

The new handset has been very busy this week, and despite some connectivity problems is proving to have a ‘handy set’ of tools.

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GIS and Surface

This post demonstrates some of the possibilities for GIS interfaces on the Surface: There are several frameworks out there for integrating mapping in to WPF Surface apps: The above system used the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF . I’ve also been … Continue reading

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Mobile media with OOKL

OOKL – students creating slide-shows from their school trips using mobile phones. Continue reading

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