Philip Green
2010-12-22 12:09:43 UTC
I have a pocketpc / smartphone with windows mobile.
It has an inbuilt GPS chip but an external GPS receiver with Bluetooth uses up
the phone's battery a lot less.
Is there any application that will track my position and give me an audible
alarm when my current location is less than a given distance from a previously
indicated position?
The reason is that I tend to fall asleep in the train and want to be woken up
when I am approaching the station where I want to get off the train.
I could use the standard alarm function and have an alarm sound shortly before
the planned arrival (if I know the planned arrival time) but trains can run
late, or even early but that's very unusual.
Using the actual location I would not even need to research the planned
arrival time - just set it to rouse me 500 or 1000 metres from my destination.
I don't know how to write programs but all it has to do is
1 Allow me to input a destination,
2 Allow me to input how far away I want to be warned,
3 Read GPS location from the GPS chip or external GPS receiver,
4 Calculate distance between current location and given destination,
5 If that distance is less than I have entered sound alarm otherwise go back
to step 3
I had a look at POIBeep but that is no longer developed and it's not what I'm
looking for. That program uses a file of POIs (for example speed cameras or
restaurants or petrol stations) and warns whenever one of them is within a
certain distance.
Suggestions are welcome.
It has an inbuilt GPS chip but an external GPS receiver with Bluetooth uses up
the phone's battery a lot less.
Is there any application that will track my position and give me an audible
alarm when my current location is less than a given distance from a previously
indicated position?
The reason is that I tend to fall asleep in the train and want to be woken up
when I am approaching the station where I want to get off the train.
I could use the standard alarm function and have an alarm sound shortly before
the planned arrival (if I know the planned arrival time) but trains can run
late, or even early but that's very unusual.
Using the actual location I would not even need to research the planned
arrival time - just set it to rouse me 500 or 1000 metres from my destination.
I don't know how to write programs but all it has to do is
1 Allow me to input a destination,
2 Allow me to input how far away I want to be warned,
3 Read GPS location from the GPS chip or external GPS receiver,
4 Calculate distance between current location and given destination,
5 If that distance is less than I have entered sound alarm otherwise go back
to step 3
I had a look at POIBeep but that is no longer developed and it's not what I'm
looking for. That program uses a file of POIs (for example speed cameras or
restaurants or petrol stations) and warns whenever one of them is within a
certain distance.
Suggestions are welcome.