C#: GPS Tracking system

c# gps system tracking
Jon picture Jon · Jun 30, 2009 · Viewed 52.7k times · Source

How do I go about building a GPS tracking system with mobile (with GPS) in C#.net ? The scenario is

  1. Track a user (service engineer, nothing illegal here) via a GPS enabled mobile Phone. What software and hardware will I require? Is there any open source implementation?

  2. For a vehicle tracking system, how do I go about with GPS? I would like to know the various steps/procedure. I am looking for some right direction.

Answer

Nick Berardi picture Nick Berardi · Jun 30, 2009

I built a Window Forms version to display information from a GPS. Haven't really touched it much since, but if you are interested the code is on CodePlex.

http://gps.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/24953#146657

All that you need to do to get this tracking somebody is

  1. Convert to Windows Mobile
  2. Build a Web Service for recording location
  3. Modify code to post location to Web Service every so often

Really I already did the hard work, or parsing the GPS commands from the serial connection for you. :)

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