BT747
BT747
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| Author: | Dirk Haase, Mario De Weerd, Thomas Mohme |
| Website: | http://www.bt747.org |
| Version: | 2.x.1769 (2010-08-13) |
| License: | GPL |
| Platform: | win ; macos ; linux ; J2ME ; palm ; wm |
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MTK GPS chipsets only! | |
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Description
BT747 is called "the swiss army knife" for MTK loggers. BT747 is available on most computing platforms. The software is used to managel MTK chipset based devices. It will download track information from most devices. It can target KML, GPX, KMZ, and several other widely used formats. The source data can be the downloaded log data as well as NMEA, CSV or GPX.
On the mobile phone (using J2ME), you can log special waypoints on the MTK based logger. This is possible through the PDA version too.
BT747 features a command line interface too. It can be used to script conversion and/or tagging operations.
Finally, BT747 can be used to perform GPS Tracking. BT747 will update a webservice with the current position of the GPS. That is possible both from the mobile phone and the desktop (which includes netbooks).
Desktop Version
The desktop version allows downloading and converting the log, including configuring most of the device's options.
Tagging in V1.68.8. BT747 uses OSM data as the background to show the tracks. The map data can be cached to disk for performance and off-line access to previously seen map data.
Check out the 'GPX for OSM' format which is optimised for OSM (limited size while maintaining waypoints). Direct upload to OSM is now implemented in the 2.X.* version of BT747 ('OSMUp' button).
Mobile Phone (J2ME)
While the mobile version is still under development, the current implementation offers critical functionality to the end user such as log download, log conversion and logger configuration.
An interesting new usage of the application is the possibility to log special waypoints on the logger as shows the screenshot on the right. Pressing '3' on your phone will instruct the MTK based logger to record a special waypoint to indicate that there is an ATM on that location.
Then, using whatever version of BT747 (PDA, Desktop, or J2ME), these can then be made available in the output file. The sample uploaded to google maps illustrates this. The waypoints you see on the map were logged in the way described before and were converted to KML by BT747. It is possible to make over 130000 waypoint types available.
PDA
Compatible with Windows Mobile and Palm systems.
Ideal to configure your logger on the road, but mostly convenient to safekeep a copy of your log on the road and/or empty your device's log to extend logging when travelling.
Links
- http://www.bt747.org - Project site (Online install, information, forum)
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt747 (ZIP download and SVN)
- http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/hardware/gps_logger_i_blue_747
