I have evaluated the progress of the project Where R U. The evaluation is written in Norwegian and can be found here.

Not much progress have been made in the project since last week’s status report. I have started exploring WMS and I have managed to download maps from a WMS to the mobile emulator. However, I have had difficulties with downloading maps for the bounds I specify. Apparently, the WMS I use supports only the Spatial Reference System(SRS) EPSG:32633 and not EPSG:4326, which means that the bounding box must be specified in UTM format and not lat/long. The problem with this is that I currently use lat/long as the format for the coordinates on the mobile phone so some form of conversion must be done.

The progress of the project is described below where the implemented and the planned functionality is described. The living report for the project can be found here and the power point (in Norwegian) for the status report presentation, which will be held on Monday, can be found here.

Work done

The main focus will be on the mobile client and thus I have started working on this part of joggerlogger. The following parts have been implemented.

• Save settings in RMS
• Connect to the GPS and create a route from the coordinates fetched from it
• Save routes locally on the mobile phone
• Display a simple presentation of a route (must be improved)

Future work

There is still a lot work that has to be done and the planned functionality of each part of joggerlogger is presented below. The functionality is numbered according to order which the different functionality will be implemented.

Mobile client

1. Display details about a route like average speed, length and time used
2. Improve the visual representation of the routes
3. Receive and fetch routes and results from the server
4. Notify about virtual competitors
5. Notify about off-course movement

Web Server

1. Save routes and results. (Probably a simple solution using only text-files

Web client

1. Find routes and results and add those to the account of the user

Last week have been used to implement some of the proposed functionality of the mobile client. I have added the ability to store settings so that the address for the gps receiver do not have to be entered every time. In addition, the mobile client can now record a route and store it to the file system of the mobile using jsr-75 (file and pim api). However, this part is not finished since a better GUI must be built.

The recording of the route have been tested two times and it seems to work. The recorded routes were displayed using a simple canvas class that draws the outline of the route. Currently, the route which is drawn is scaled to fit the screen of the mobile, but a smarter solution will be added.

Previous week has been used to create and holding a presentation of the project in the course skriving, forskning og publisering. In addition, a living document of the end report has be created which can be found here, or you can use the link added in the links section for this blog.

The last week has been used to write a more detailed description for the project in the course Forsking, skriving og publisering. This description can be found here.

Added a scenario to the project plan page.