Hello, my question is the following if it wasn't clear enough.
I want to be able to track a person threw his/hers mobilephone and display his whereabouts on a website. I read some stuff here about safari and Iphone.
What I need is a startingpoint in the sense off what is possible, and is it only possible for certain phones.
I can ask a lot off questions because I read bits and pieces everywhere, but what I need is a general layout what needs to be done in some steps if possible.
thanks, Richard
Well, if we assume you are starting from scratch, here is a high level list of things to figure out:
familiarise yourself with geolocation coordinates and the gps system. If you need to make sense of the raw location data, there is some math involved.
pick a location-aware mobile platform. Some phones will implement jsr-179, which is a JavaME API. In addition, you can get location data using python or C++ on Symbian phones. I suspect Android and iPhone both have their own location API.
figure out application deployment for the platform you picked. How does the mobile application get on the device? A phone manufacturer or network operator application store, a third party store like www.getjar.com, pre-installed on the phone via a partnership with the manufacturer or the network operator...plenty of options.
come up with a sensible way of packaging mobile location data and send it over the network to a remote server.
make a website to display the location data stored on the server.