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 * Where are your children? 
 * Where are your employees?
 * Where are the dogs (if you are hunting)? 

Let's monitor them all with a mobile phone equipped with GPS!

!OpenGeoTracker consists of two parts: 

 1. Client software running on mobile phones, sending GPS info over internet (HTTP)
 1. Server software receiving the GPS data and let's you monitor it. (Server Setup page [wiki:ServerSetup here])


This open source project contains both the client software (currently only implemented for Android, need help with more phone-platforms, but you can also try the browser client at http://opengeotracker.org/logger.html) and the server software which is executed at [[http://opengeotracker.org/]] for collecting GPS data. (Which easily can be replaced if you want to host it yourself)

Client features:
 * Lets you enter the URL for the receiving server (default URL is: http://opengeotracker.org/)
 * Lets you enter a random key (4-20 chars). This key will be associated with all the GPS-data you send (in the Android application this key is random generated by default check in Menu->Key id)
 * Lets you set how often the phone should send it's position to the server (in the Android application this must be >= 5 seconds)
 * You might tag each serie of GPS-info with a name (0-40 chars) (for example: "daughter at friend", "my great mushroom places", ...)
 * Two modes: turn on/off continuous logging (at the specified update interval) or only log each time you press a button.  
 * Cache positions so you can send them later (for example when you're home at your WLAN)
 * Turn on/off automatic logging when the phone starts.

Server features:
 * Let's you enter your key to gain access to your data.
 * View your routes using Google Maps
 * Import your data as a kml-route (LineString) or the last point as a kml-point. You might integrate these in your own application
 * Import your data as a CSV-file (Comma Separated Value) also the timestamp of the position is delivered on the format: <key-id>,<tag-name>,<yyyy-MM-dd>T<HH:mm:ss>+01:00,<latitude>,<longitude>
 * Other ideas1: Download your GPS data using other car-navigation formats such as !TomTom)
 * Other ideas2: geo-tag photos by uploading them (match the jpg-images EXIF timestamp with the timestamp of the GPS on the server)

[wiki:API Here] you find a description of the !OpenGeoTracker API

[wiki:ServerSetup This] page describes how you do the Server Setup

Do you have any other idéas or questions, please contact me at: jka at ekblad.org