Need Help...........

[sunexim]

I want to make a tracking system for my car so that i could see it on the computer on Google earth. I have a Taiwan made GPS which i attached to the PC and by interfacing it with franson GPSGATE v 2.6 software that send data to franson website and then i checked the location of the GPS on fransonGPSGATE website map server.

[popp]

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china made gps's work better.......start there

[Stonewall]

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You want real time tracking? If so how do you plan to get the data off the car? There are already many companies that make such tracking systems.
Edit: Plus this is the classified section...

[bart]

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-android phone
-google account
-latitude

that's all you need

[aliencurv]

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you can do it incredibly cheap. with a few lines of code i could assemble something easy for you.

a pay as you go phone from 7-11. most of them have serial ports. i'd use a microchip pic microcontroller. i have hundreds of the big boys, but a small 16f would be perfect for this application. i'd use a SiRF gps (they have an internal antenna). voila!

pay as u go phone: $?
microchip pic: $3
gps module: $35
7805 +5 voltage regulator: $0.99

Write some quick code to check the phone for new text messages. everytime it received a message with a specific word, it would txt send the gps cordinates to a hardcoded number in the code.

Off to the races

If u find a pay as u go phone that has a serial port in the charging harness, let me know and i'll write some quick code for you and flash the chip. it's only about 10 minutes of time to make something like that.

[Canadian Turbo]

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I am thinking this one just might be spam.

[bart]

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more like someone just their 2nd day on the internet ever lol