[OZAPRS] FW: aprs.fi bookmarks video, and web location sharing

[Howard Small]

Hi Col
You are right but mypos from the internet has a fairly large margin of error - our condo is at soi phahonyotin 21...
Jet sam
Howard

"Col Thompson - VK2CRT" <vk2crt at gmail.com> wrote:

>But Howard JJ Market isn't open today!
>
>Chock Dee Mak Mak
>
>Sawdee Krup khun Howard
>
>Col
>(aka VK2CRT)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>Behalf Of Howard Small
>Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 10:31 PM
>To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
>Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] FW: aprs.fi bookmarks video, and web location sharing
>
>  Just tried it using my Android pad in Bangkok and it works fine - got 
>my position from the internet connection! Have a look at VK4BS to see 
>the result.
>
>Howard
>VK4BS
>On 12/10/2010 19:56, Richard Hoskin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Going on recent discussions this may be of interest to F Calls who wish to
>> be involved on APRS on the internet only.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>> VK3JFK
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
>> Of Heikki Hannikainen
>>
>> On Sunday I made a video demonstrating the new bookmarks feature on
>> aprs.fi, and uploaded it to Youtube. Feedback appreciated (maybe off-line
>> using direct email instead of this mailing list). Should I invest time in
>> making more of these for other features? Is it progressing too fast or too
>> slow? Is the language understandable? Waste of time?
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UA77fnIok
>>
>> This might also be news to some: The aprs.fi site also allows you to
>> upload your position to the site directly from a web browser, if the web
>> browser somehow knows where you are. This works great on mobile phones
>> with GPS, such as the iPhone and many new Android phones from multiple
>> vendors (HTC, Motorola, Samsung, LG...). Some browsers figure their
>> position pretty accurately based on nearby WLAN hotspots using a wifi
>> hotspot coordinate database provided by Google. No application
>> installation or purchase necessary!
>>
>> The position is not transmitted to the APRS-IS, so it can be used by
>> non-amateurs too without risking the licensing of transmitting igates (and
>> without me having to worry about how to possibly identify licensed
>> amateurs from non-hams). The web station names can also be longer and they
>> are not restricted to ASCII characters - international characters are just
>> fine. Some 400 users have already successfully used this feature on
>> various devices.
>>
>> Instructions here:
>>
>> http://blog.aprs.fi/2010/08/web-location-uploads-better-iphone.html
>>
>>     - Hessu
>>
>>
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