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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
Posted in Out There In Here, Research
Tagged Android, GIS, hardware, mobile, phone, software
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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
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
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
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
Posted in Development, Out There In Here
Tagged Android, GIS, mobile, phone, software, web
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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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Tagged Android, field trials, mobile, phone, software, streaming, technology, web
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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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Tagged Android, field trials, mobile, phone, software, streaming
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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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Tagged Android, hardware, mobile, phone, software, technology
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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
Mobile media with OOKL
OOKL – students creating slide-shows from their school trips using mobile phones. Continue reading