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Google earth real time gps6/21/2023 ![]() The code is licensed under Creative Commons, so you’re free to use the code in this project in whatever applications you wish. There is no software costs involved, since everything is open source. The costs are all associated with the hardware components. Since the positional information is retrieved every second and the maps updated at the same frequency, a real time GPS tracking effect is achieved. It then integrates this information into Google Maps through Google Maps API which displays the position on a map. The javascript would run in the user's browser and has instructions to retrieve the positional information from the mySQL database every second. When a user clicks on the tracking page, Zope, which is an open source web application server, serves up an HTML page with an embedded javascript code. The TCP server stores the incoming positional data in a mySQL database. The GPS chip outputs the positioning information which is transferred over a GPRS link to the mobile operator’s GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) and then to a remote server over a TCP connection. In a nutshell, this is how the GPS Tracker works. Even if you didn’t have any application in mind, it would be a fun weekend project, you never know, you might find the knowledge gathered during the process useful one day in some form or other. When I started building this, I didn’t have any particular application in mind, but now that I have built it, I can see myself using it different applications, particularly if I can get to lower the cost. I tore down everything and rebuilt it from scratch, making detailed notes and documenting the process. I began this project mainly to see if I can integrate all the different pieces of hardware and software to make a workable solution, and it took some time, but finally when everything was said and done, it looked pretty cool. ![]() This project describes how you can build a mobile real time GPS tracker with integrated Google Maps. ![]()
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