Comments on: Utility: findme http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/ Erica Sadun Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:48:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: wrboyce http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1709 wrboyce Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:27:05 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1709 Hi Erica, First off, cracking job with findme! It's brilliant! I've been using it and submitting the data to my own database with a view to to using the Google Maps API to display the data.. I am finding that findme is often unable to find a location, when the Locate Me button is having no trouble (I have just got home, the accuracy is nigh on perfect in Google Maps, but 'findme' fails to find anything).. Have you any ideas what could be causing this? Also, as a final, very cheeky request - any chance we'll get a peek at the code? :-) Thanks very much! Keep up the good work (please)! Hi Erica,

First off, cracking job with findme! It’s brilliant!

I’ve been using it and submitting the data to my own database with a view to to using the Google Maps API to display the data.. I am finding that findme is often unable to find a location, when the Locate Me button is having no trouble (I have just got home, the accuracy is nigh on perfect in Google Maps, but ‘findme’ fails to find anything).. Have you any ideas what could be causing this?

Also, as a final, very cheeky request - any chance we’ll get a peek at the code? :-)

Thanks very much! Keep up the good work (please)!

]]> By: white http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1689 white Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:11:52 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1689 Also, there is no problem running ./findme when the iPhone has Internet connection (Wi-FI). When it doesn't or the connection is limited, it hangs for few minutes and says "bus error". iPhone running 1.1.3, upgraded from 1.0.2 OTB - 1.1.1 - 1.1.3. The Google Maps still works fine even with limited Internet connection. Also, there is no problem running ./findme when the iPhone has Internet connection (Wi-FI). When it doesn’t or the connection is limited, it hangs for few minutes and says “bus error”. iPhone running 1.1.3, upgraded from 1.0.2 OTB - 1.1.1 - 1.1.3. The Google Maps still works fine even with limited Internet connection.

]]> By: jaxx http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1686 jaxx Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:30:00 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1686 Hi Erica, and thanks for your awesome work... Here in Europe (or at least France in my case) we have precise tower locations and applications like LocateMe are up to 50m precision in dense city situations, I really believe a triangulation version would be great. Along with a tunable output of findme (in case we want to push the results in another form and/or to another website). http://twitter.com/happyjaxx/ Cheers :-) Hi Erica, and thanks for your awesome work…

Here in Europe (or at least France in my case) we have precise tower locations and applications like LocateMe are up to 50m precision in dense city situations, I really believe a triangulation version would be great.

Along with a tunable output of findme (in case we want to push the results in another form and/or to another website).

http://twitter.com/happyjaxx/

Cheers :-)

]]> By: ericboehs http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1682 ericboehs Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:40:03 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1682 I was wondering if you could change the ll in the google url to q. This will put a green arrow at the location instead of just centering it on the map with no marker. Example: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.375338%2c-98.047962 instead of http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.375338%2c-98.047962 I was wondering if you could change the ll in the google url to q. This will put a green arrow at the location instead of just centering it on the map with no marker. Example: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.375338%2c-98.047962 instead of http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.375338%2c-98.047962

]]> By: white http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1681 white Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:39:02 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1681 Are there any way you can add an option to make an output with your location only and do not make any external calls to other servers? This would really help. Some people don't have an unlimited Internet connection, it could be limited to certain ports or for proxy use only. In such situation, the code would not work unless you have a full unrestricted Internet access. Thank you and looking forward your update. Are there any way you can add an option to make an output with your location only and do not make any external calls to other servers? This would really help. Some people don’t have an unlimited Internet connection, it could be limited to certain ports or for proxy use only. In such situation, the code would not work unless you have a full unrestricted Internet access. Thank you and looking forward your update.

]]> By: fiefie http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1678 fiefie Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:50:50 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1678 Can you make it send the IP as well.. that way we can at least track which IP it's coming from.. that might be useful.. =P Can you make it send the IP as well.. that way we can at least track which IP it’s coming from.. that might be useful.. =P

]]> By:   iPhone FindMe: Free Anti-Theft Software for Apple iPhone to Retrieve GSM Cell Id Location via Twitter by Tech[dot]Blog http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1676   iPhone FindMe: Free Anti-Theft Software for Apple iPhone to Retrieve GSM Cell Id Location via Twitter by Tech[dot]Blog Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:02:32 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1676 [...] Erica Sadun has released the first beta version of a freeware anti-theft application for Apple iPhone called iPhone FindMe. Findme is a command-line utility that returns the location of the cell phone tower nearest to your iPhone. When run, the utility tells you the GSM tower’s cell id as well as its latitude and longitude with the help of Google Maps. It then autosubmits the information to Yahoo, and gets back the name of your city and state in return. This is not a full fledged anti-theft cellphone recovery software but just serves the basic purpose of retrieving data to locate the mobile phone. [...] […] Erica Sadun has released the first beta version of a freeware anti-theft application for Apple iPhone called iPhone FindMe. Findme is a command-line utility that returns the location of the cell phone tower nearest to your iPhone. When run, the utility tells you the GSM tower’s cell id as well as its latitude and longitude with the help of Google Maps. It then autosubmits the information to Yahoo, and gets back the name of your city and state in return. This is not a full fledged anti-theft cellphone recovery software but just serves the basic purpose of retrieving data to locate the mobile phone. […]

]]> By: eric.muir http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1670 eric.muir Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:32:13 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1670 this is cool, you should talk with twitter / facebook about making a facebook app that lets ppl see where i currently am, im constantly traveling, so my friends would love to know where i am, thanks again! this is cool, you should talk with twitter / facebook about making a facebook app that lets ppl see where i currently am, im constantly traveling, so my friends would love to know where i am, thanks again!

]]> By: Erica Sadun http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1620 Erica Sadun Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:21:30 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1620 Right now it just picks the nearest tower. It could theoretically triangulate but I found that the lat/lon data returned by google maps wasn't fine enough to do much more with. Right now it just picks the nearest tower. It could theoretically triangulate but I found that the lat/lon data returned by google maps wasn’t fine enough to do much more with.

]]> By: fsaint http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1618 fsaint Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:01:42 +0000 http://ericasadun.com/2008/02/utility-findme/#comment-1618 Cool program, works very well. Does it do triangulation or it just queries based on one tower? Cool program, works very well. Does it do triangulation or it just queries based on one tower?

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