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Eagle Eye Tracker Mobile is an advance tracking application designed to both
Tack yourself and others using the same application. Whether you are using
the application for fun or for commercial purposes, you will find the features
are easy to use and very powerful.
Installing the Application
After you finish the registration process and download the application, sync
your pocket PC phone with Active Sync. When you are synced, open the file
EET.msi. This will start the installation process. Follow any
instructions on your PC and on your phone. When the installation is
complete, the EET icon will be visible in your program files on your phone.
Starting the Application
Click on the EET icon in your Programs folder.
Settings
Server Settings
This is the most important section in this manual. If you do this wrong,
the application will not connect with the server. When you registered on
Eagle Eye Tracker.com, you were sent an email with your server settings.
These are yours and will not work on any other phone. Click Settings >
Server Settings
- Enter your ID
- Enter your password
- Enter the server IP address
- Enter the port
once you have done this, your server settings are complete. Now, click OK.
GPS settings
Click on Settings > GPS Settings. Your GPS settings will open and you will
see the two drop down boxes. These are for GPS port and GPS Baud rate.
Don't change these yet because the application will search for the GPS
automatically. There is a checkbox you need to check it is call Send
Locations. This is to allow the application to connect to the server.
Put a check in this box. Also choose the interval you wish to send your
location updates. Now Click the Button labeled Start. This will
start the GPS. watch the messages below the Button. These messages
will tell you if the application has connected with your GPS. If you
connect you will see a message something like "GPS OK! COM4, 4800" It may
take a few seconds for the GPS to connect. If you can't connect to
the GPS, see our FAQ page for ways to fix this. once you have GPS
connection, click OK.
3D Fix Connected /
You should now be back at the main navigation screen. The map you should
see is a world map and you (small red circle) should be centered somewhere on
the map where you physically are located on Earth (This only works on Earth!).
It may take a minute or two but you will connect to the server and you will see
the message in the black status bar at the bottom of the screen that says "3D
Fix Connected." This means that you have a 3D gps fix and you are
connected to the server. At this point, you can go online to
www.EagleEyeTracker.com, login and
see yourself on the map! It's that easy!
Maps
This is where you have to do a little work. Its not that hard but you will
have to do some downloading or actual map configuration. The map that you
see now is just a simple world line map. This will not help you locate
yourself or your friends when you need details. Download
GPSTools Studio. This software allows you to make maps
for yourself of the location you are going to operate in. Next you need to
make yourself familiar with the USGS seamless Map Server. If you live outside the
United States, you may need to find a source for digital maps or you can
make your own. We will discuss this a little later. Click on the
USGC link above. You should be at the start page for downloading free
maps! If you are in the USA, click on the little map of North America.
Be prepared, this is a slow website but makes your life so much easier.
You should see a map of the USA. Go ahead and make a boz around where you
are. That is click and drag a box around your location or the area you
intend to use this application. Keep doing this until you can see the
whole area you want to work within.
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Now is a good time to discuss map size. I currently run a map that is
18megs in size. This is a very large map that covers an area of about 15 x
15 miles. This map, being so large, causes delays in map loading and when
I am driving, the map will stall for several seconds and then continue. So
when you choose your map, make sure you keep this in mind. To combat this,
we have two layers, layer1 and layer2. Layer1 is your huge high dtail map and
layer2 is your not so detailed smaller map. However the maps will cover
the same area. The USGS server will allow you to download both of these
maps. We will be downloading 1/24K USGS topoquads and the 1/100K USGS
topoquads. The 24K maps are much more detailed but are very large.
The 100K maps have less detail but are smaller in size. These maps were
actually created from the original paper maps that were scanned and the
geo-referenced. They are very accurate. The 24K maps give you close
up detail. The 100K maps are a more overview of the area with major
terrain features. You can still get these paper maps from the USGS.
Once you have the area you want to download, look on the left side of the USGS
website. There is a section for Downloads. There is a button that
has a small red box in it and a mouse pointer. Click this and then Click
and drag a box around the area to download. Once you finished that a
window will pop up called "The National Map Seamless Server Request Summary
Page. We are almost done. The default download is the National
Elevation Dataset. This is not what we are looking for. We need to
add a couple of things to the list. Click on "Modify Data Request."
This will bring up a whole slew of things you can download but the ones we want
are at the top of the list. put a check next to 100K DRG-UTM Zone XX.
The XX is there because i don't know what zone you are in. Also, if your
were paying attention to the above notes, you will have already put a check next
to 24k DRG- UTM Zone XX. Just a note:
Remember what those values that I refer to as XX.To
the right of each item you checked, a drop down list is now visible. Make
sure they are both set to GeoTIFF and ZIP. Now scroll all the way to
the bottom of the page and click the button "Save Changes & Return to Summary."
Now, along with the Elevation Dataset, you should see the two items we added.
Click the download button on the 24K map first. you will see that you are
put into a Queue and then eventually it will tell you that the server is
extracting the data you requested. Finally it will say the data extraction
in complete and has a link that says "here" to download the file. Click
that link and your download dialog boxed will appear. Click on the button
to save the file to disk and then name the file 24K <your loaction>.zip.
Your location being the area the map covers. Start the Download. When the
download finishes, close that window so you can see the summary page again and
click download for the 100K maps. Do the same thing you did with the 24K
map accepts name the 100K maps with 100K<your location>.zip. Unzip them in
an area you can remember. Now you have both of your maps.
Once you have your maps, it is not hard to create the actual map file the EET
Mobile application uses. Start by opening the GPSTools studio file you
downloaded. Now you are ready to create a map for your Pocket PC phone!
Follow these steps
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Click File > New Maplib
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Click Map > New Map
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Go to the place on your hard drive where you put the maps you downloaded. The
file with the extension of ".tif" is the file we are looking for. It
should look something like "85840659.tif" Select that file and click open.
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Then next box that appears is the New map settings dialog. Name this map
"layer1". make sure it is exactly as it appears in quotes. No caps.
Also make sure the Tile size is set for Height: 256 and Width: 256. Click OK
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A box will pop up asking if you want to use the worldfile. Click Yes.
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The next box that appears is the Worldfile wizard. For the country /
Region, choose Unaited States. We concluded you were in the USA above.
Now in the Select Grid dropdown, you should choose UTM(nad27). This is the
default Datum (where 0 is on earth to put it simply) that the USGS topoquads
uses. Now the zone is the XX i asked you to remember above...remember?
Put that value in Zone. Now that we have done this, click Next. You have
now created half of your map file.
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Follow steps 2 through 6 again for the 100K map but name this map "layer2" .
Once you have done this go on to Step 8
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Click File > Save Maplib . The save dialog will appear. Now you can
name the file whatever you want. I name my file the area i am working in
for example, "Sierra Vista.Maplib"
Congratulations, you have created a Maplib for your Pocket PC phone to use with
Eagle Eye Tracker Mobile. Now we just need to put it somewhere in your
phone.
Go ahead and Sync your phone with your computer using Activesync. Open your
active sync Dialog and Click on the Explore button. This will allow you to
look around the file system of your Pocket PC phone. If you don't have a
storage card already, stop right now and go buy a 1 or 2 gig card.
Remember these files can be really large. You can put the file your My
Documents folder if you wish however. If you have a storage card on your
phone, create a folder on the card called "MAPS"
Now click Start > My Computer (on your PC not your phone) and find the Maplib file you created. When you
find the Maplib file, drag it into the Pocket PC explorer window into the folder
you want it in.
Wow! You have come along way! You just need to tell the software
what mapfile you want to use. OK start the EET application if you haven't
already. Click Settings > Map File. You should see the current map file
being used and a little button with "..." in it. Click that button.
Find the file we created and moved into the Pocket PC. Click on that file.
Once you have done that, click OK. It may take a minute to load depending
on how huge your file is. When it is done loading, exit the application by
clicking Settings > Exit. Restart the application. You will now see
the new map we created!
Good job!
Screen Settings
This section will save your battery. If you plan to use this alot,
you will want to set this to turn off your screen every so many seconds that you
choose. The EET application makes sure your Pocket PC phone does not turn
off. If it did, the position updates would stop with it. Therefore
we put a function to turn off the screen in order to save batteries.
Rotate Screen
If you are handy with a needle and thread, you may want to mount this on your
wrist or something. This feature rotates the screen and keeps it there for
that kind of use.
Proximity Alarm
If you are navigating somewhere in navagation mode (see below), this setting
will alert you that you are close to where you want to be with a little message.
Emergency Button Setup
This is important so don't skip this section. The emergency button, by
default, sends and emergency message to any friends you can track. So
anybody that is in your friends list and are logged in will get this message.
In addition, you can set the emergency button to dial the phone.
You can either specify a number or you can check the dial
911 checkbox and when you press the Emergency button, the phone will
automatically dial 911 for you. Be careful with this setting.
Options
Update locations
update locations sends your current location on command.
You may have set your send location interval to 5 minutes. this allows to
to send your location immediately.
Locate on GPS
This basically centers the map on your location. If you are locating a
buddy on your map, this setting will be turned off. To stop locating on a
friend, click this. A check mark next to the item will tell you if you are
locating on GPS or not.
Stop Navigation
if you are in navigation mode, this will take you out of navigation mode.
Send Navagation Order
This is one of the really cool features of the EET Mobile Application.
With this feature you can tell one of your friends where to go. Click Send
Navigation order. Then for this example, Click "Click on Map". Now
you can click on your map to send sombody to that location. So click on
the map somewhere. Now a dialog box appears that has the Latitude and
Longitude of the location you clicked. Now you can add a message and click
the dropdown box and choose a friend to send this to. Now your friend's
Pocket PC running EET Mobile will go into Navigation mode and he will also get
the message.
Send Message
With this function you can send a text message to one of your friends.
Click "Send Message". Write your message and choose your friend.
Click send message. If your friend is logged in he/she will receive this
message.
Navigate
Navigate is the core feature of GPS navigation. Click on "Navigate".
Now you can choose from Coordinates, Click on Map, or Waypoint List.
Coordinates allows you to enter latitude and longitude coordinates manually.
it also allows you so save this location in your waypoints if you desire.
Click on map will allow you to choose a point on the map to navigate to.
As with the coordinate option, you have the choice to save this location as a
waypoint. Waypoint list is your saved locations. You can choose a
previously saved location to navigate to. Choose any one of these, and
when you are finished with the dialog boxes, click OK. you will go into
navagation mode. You will see a compass dial and distance and direction
text.
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Little note on navigating. A GPS knows what direction you are going by
referencing your current location with your last location. If you are in
navagation mode and you are lazily walking, you last location will not be very
far from your current location. In fact it will be so close that the math
necesary to calculate your direction creates some really really small numbers.
Also GPS tend to wander around in a 50 foot circle. So with your GPS is
wandering by itself and you are barely moving, you will get a really bouncy
compass needle. Move with a purpose and you will get some good directions. Oh
yeah! If the compass needle is pointing straight up, you are going
in the right direction. If it is pointing off to the right, you need to
turn right. In essence, the needle is pointing the direction you need to
go. ghkjgjh
Locate
This is the coolest part of the EET Mobile Application. Up till now you
have been tracking yourself. Locate allows you to track your friends.
Click Locate > Friend. Now select your friend from the drop down list and
click OK. Your map will now center on your friend! Your friends will
always show on your map if they are within your viewing window.
Add Waypoint
Add waypoint allows you to manually enter a Latitude , Longitude, Name and
Description of your new waypoint that will be saved in your Pocket PC phone.
Mark Location
Mark location allows you to save your current location as a waypoint.
Average Location
As we talked about above, your GPS will wander around inside a 50 foot circle
all the time. Why? Off the shelf consumer GPSs have limited
accuracy. High end $10,000 GPSs get the centemeter accuracy. So to
offset this, we can average the locations. What does that mean?
We take every position sent from the gps and add all the latitudes we receive
and divde that by the number of latitudes we received. We do this with the
longitudes as well. This gives us a more accurate position of time. When you navigate to a location, it puts a little blue box at the location you
need to be at. Clear map erases that box.
Map
The map screen displays your location and the location of your friends.
The "IN" and "OUT" buttons zoom your map in and out.
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