[Announce]Situare - Locate and share your position with friends
 

Situare application introduces a concept of social locating. It allows users to view, update and share their location using Facebook accounts. Situare utilizes OpenStreetMap database for mapping, CloudMade for route calculation and device GPS for automatic locating.

Project home is located in https://garage.maemo.org/projects/situare/.
Check also http://www.situare.net.

Screenshots:

Basic view:
http://c.imagehost.org/0883/basicview.png

Friends:
http://c.imagehost.org/0132/friends.png

Location search:
http://c.imagehost.org/0733/locationsearch.png

Routing:
http://c.imagehost.org/0655/routing.png

Package is currently in extras-testing. If you are using the application for first time, please visit http://client.situare.net before trying it. I hope you give feedback. :)

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ituare/2.0b-1/

Re: [Announce]Situare - Locate and share your position with friends
 

I get 'Unknown server error' when ever I open the application, also when trying to send location to facebook and trying to update my position.

I have gps and 2g (edge) active, no 3g signal where I currently am though I am connected to wifi.

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You have visited http://client.situare.net and then tried the login?

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If you like the software, please spare some time for learning how package testing works at http://wiki.maemo.org/Help_testing_software
If application passes every point required in http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist , give it thumbs up!

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I also get "Unknown server error" and I have logged into the site.

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Indeed the application shows that error occasionally, but message seems to go to the Facebook wall. :/

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Thanks. Server seems to be quite slow and the application might get undefined error message. Of course there are problems instantly when I announce the app. :D

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Working good. FB association is easy. I'm testing it with a few people with N900's now. Friends list has populated, however locations are not being filled.

Some other small bugs.

Do you have an email address you (and the rest of the team) can be reached at? Or do you prefer garage tracker entries?

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Have your friends updated their location? After that friends' locations should be shown. You have to use refresh button to update data, because server is not pushing the data to the client.

Please use garage tracker to submit bug reports etc.

Re: [Announce]Situare - Locate and share your position with friends
 

All is working now.

Excellent app. Everything is fluid.

I'll be posting a quick video review shortly.

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got this weird msg...

fatal error: Call to undefined function getMessage() in /var/www/html/client.situare.net/clientChecker.php on line 26

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i can't login with my facebook account...invalid email or password???

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After login and accepting access rights or when? After that you can try the application on phone. There might also be some changes on the server-side, is it working now?

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Well the app works for me, but it shows a green arrow (which I presume is my Situare location at 0,0 (i.e. somewhere off the coast of Nigeria) while the little red dot that shows my GPS location is where I actually am, a little further north in Bath, England.

Pressing the green update button doesn't seem to do anything.

Any thoughts?

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Ah, it's just updated me to my correct location (I set auto updates), so all's well and good :)

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Actually the location update is done by pressing envelope (below green refresh button) and then you can write the message or leave it empty and update your location. Maybe the location update is not that intuitive. :)

When you update your location, it selects your GPS position or if GPS is not in use, it selects current map center position.

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Ah ok, so the green circular arrow just looks for updates to your friends' locations then?

I pressed the wrong button in that case, doh! :)

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The server is pull-based so the client has to request updates. Of course this could be done automatically with timer interval, but currently you have to do it manually.

E:

Green arrow - refresh, updates your and friends information
Envelope - Update location and send message (publish on Facebook)

Re: [Announce]Situare - Locate and share your position with friends
 

Selecting your own profile (first tab) should really bring up the public on Facebook dialog instead of having it in the last / envelope tab. Seems a bit more intuitive to me.

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That's a good idea! It would be faster to update. I don't know why we haven't done it that way, maybe it's the limited space in the tab...

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Does this only work with friends who are using Sitaure? Or does it integrate with Facebook places?

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It works only with friends using Situare because users have to accept access rights to their information.
This was started before Facebook released Places, but of course now it would be better to implement Places to the application. As far as I know Places can be used to check-in to predefined locations, but our application let you update your location wherever you want. :)

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One person has voted the app, but I hope more people would test it and give thumbs up (or down) :)

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ituare/2.0b-1/

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thanks for this great app. So what other platforms use this app other than maemo coz i wouldn't have anyone else to share my location with if this is limited to only maemo :(. The UI is smooth and fancy and of course very good. My only concern is with the GPS fix coz every time I put it to bg and get back to it later it refixes the GPS position and most of the time its different and not exactly my position. Worst case was while I was publishing it to fb coz thogh it was showing the right pos while publishing when it actually happened the position was showing I was in some freeway near by :(

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Tried today. First of all, it Capitalize first letter of email - it's confusing, and maybe it capitalize password input text as well - at least I couldn't get login successfully (and I'm sure I enter proper email and password, and my internet connection is ok). Anyway, after that I see message box(yellow horizontal message) with error "Map download failed", which repeats continuously after clicking.
So, unusable with this issues. :(

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Yes same Map download failed error here. Maybe some changes at the maps server? I have tried this once before, it was fully functional then

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Thanks for feedback. :D

You can check the clients from here: http://www.situare.net. You can also use it from Facebook (search for Situare).

When application is on background or the screen is off, the GPS is in sleep mode (the app doesn't get position updates). So it might take same time before the GPS gets the fix again. You can check the location from update position dialog. The address is shown there.

If I remember correctly, the QLineEdit capitalizes the first letter for some reason. Do you know how to fix this?
I have never had issues with password field, did you visit http://client.situare.net and approved the application before trying the client.

Maybe we have to disable the warning message or try to figure out what's the problem. The map tiles are usually shown correctly despite the warning messages.

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Facebook? Situare can not show a location or map on Facebook Home and Facebook news feed just application on Facebook.

If you friends didn't used Situare they can't see anything that you posted from Situare Application.

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I meant that if you don't have a phone capable of using Situare clients, you (or your friends) can use it from Facebook (or directly from http://client.situare.net).

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Sorry, just more information for N900 user who never used Situare application on Facebook.

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Hello, this looks as if it may have potential.

I successfully managed to post a couple of locations very easily using the N900 client.

Google part seems a bit off though. When you view in Facebook has no postings at all.

There is nothing in the listings either..

Oh, and I have no friends - but that's not your fault :-D

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What do you mean? The list only shows your friends and their messages and locations.

Maybe in the future release history of location updates could be shown or something like that. :)

Re: [Announce]Situare - Locate and share your position with friends
 

thanks. misunderstood its functionality.

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Sorry for spam, but it would be great to have more people testing and giving feedback. :)