Digital Dave

A buddy asked if I could create a simple application which would allow him to post GPS data from his device to a custom website that he was using. Easy enough. So I whipped it up and sent it his way.

Then I got to thinking that I don’t have any good sample objective-c code from my previous projects on my portfolio and in addition to that, I have never contributed anything to the open source community before. I jumped onto github and started to bring in this application. The original application didn’t have much of a UI so I spent a little time putting one together.

This app works by taking custom website and script given by the user. I default this to http://www.david-mcgraw.com/gpsinfo.php which simply returns the post values that is fed into it. Imagine the full URL being built like http://www.david-mcgraw.com/gpsinfo.php?long=34.48&lat=39.33&alt=38.43&userid=1. The user can then post that data whenever needed.

Right now you can change the settings and post. I thought it would be handy to add a map that shows you your previous posting locations in addition to a log view. I don’t have the time to implement those right now, but I hope this gives an idea of how I work in this environment. Hard to say if anyone will actually grab the code to work on it, but I doubt it.

http://github.com/mcgraw/GPS-Updater