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12pt;font-family: Verdana;">In Windows you can use a script to copy the
files, compress them and send them.<br><br>Android should have something
equivalent. If not Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 can build something
that will run on android.<br><br>We seem to be forever seeing requests
from students to write software for OSM and HOT as a project.<br><br>This
one is a natural. <br><br>Enabling GPS tracking is heavy on a battery
life but you can buy power packs quite cheaply to extend the life. I
wouldn't connect it to the car battery, the voltage fluctuates to much
and it will shorten the smartphone life down.<br><br>So basically you
want a program that will grab the GPS tracks every x minutes and
compress them. Technically zip is fine but the problem with zips is
they can carry malware so use something else and gmail won't accept them
anyway.<br><br>Then it should just email these back to the server.
There should be an API to allow the software to write to something like
Gmail on the smartphone.<br><br>When gmail finds a connection it will
send the messages home. No fingers needed other than to connect to Wifi
for gmail. This one is the simplest.<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/sending">https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/sending</a>
has got the basics.<br><br>The other way is to use the signal that the
phone uses to connect to the mast. There are 140 / 160 characters at
the end of the packet which are unused. This is the basis of SMS text
messaging. In Europe, North America phone plans often come with
unlimited SMS text messaging, Africa maybe different. The advantage is
you can collect the data in real time. The disadvantage is the store
and forward method of email is a bit more robust.<br><br>There are SMS
APIs that will run on a smartphone but my impression is these vary
according to the phone so an SMS based solution that ran on any phone
might be more difficult to build but someone who knows more about SMS
might be in a better position to sort something out. <br><br>Cheerio
John<br><br><span>Jorieke Vyncke wrote on 2019-01-09 10:48 AM:</span><br><blockquote
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cite="mid:CAEO7yf5v=8VAxZMCrd6EWeqQJ45hFB=XbzbGMgjbBoQZrOx8qg@mail.gmail.com"><div
dir="ltr">Thanks a lot for all your suggestions! <div>I suppose easy to
use is core, so options with manually copying traces is probably not
the best solution. </div><div>However I will forward all your
suggestions to Last, and will leave it up to him to decide what is the
best option for them on the ground! </div><div><br>If there are more
ideas, they still welcome :) </div><div>Thanks a lot! </div><div><br></div><div>Jorieke</div></div><br><div
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Op wo 9 jan. 2019 om 14:26 schreef
Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr"
moz-do-not-send="true">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>>:<br></div><blockquote
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style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div>Hi
Jorieke<br></div><div><br></div><div>There are small vehicule gps
logger, some very precise reading various satellite networks. I tried a
Columbus. It did work very well but could not replace the battery.</div><div><br></div><div>Search
simply for vehicule gps logger. This Ebay link show various models,
some with an USB connection and / or sim card.<br></div><div><span
style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold"><a
href="https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_nkw=vehicle+gps+data+logger"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_nkw=vehicle+gps+data+logger</a></span><div><br></div><div>regard<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><span
style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,191);font-weight:bold"><span><div><br></div></span></span></div><div
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face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font></span></div><div><span
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