Eriadne 1.2.1 Update

Dear Eriadne user,
we have to inform that 1.2.0 version contains a bug that prevent the sending of full path to the server.

We welcome you to download the updated version 1.2.1 .

Thank You and have great excursions !

Eriadne Team

27.11.2007 - Eriadne 1.2.0 (beta)

New version of Eriadne presents some new features:

• Supporting more mobile phones: so far Eriadne was supported mainly by Nokia models, with this new version Eriadne connects directly Bluetooth GPS devices. If your phone does not give the expected results please write a comment on this post including your model and we'll find solution.
• Destination path: it's possible to set target coordinates in CH1903 (maps Swiss) or WGS84 and on the screen will display a green arrow indicating the direction of the destination (compared to the sense of march) and the remaining distance.
• GEOCaching: You can send your position with an SMS directly to another person who has Eriadne, the other person will be able to set it as the destination and reach you with ease.
• Geomagnetic compass: If your GPS device has the geomagnetic compass sensor on the screen will display the north permanently and continuously, even in the absence of the GPS signal.

Presenting vosti.info

Today we would like to present a big fan of Eriadne's system.

Claudio is an expert paraglider and he is using Eriadne to track live the flights through his web site www.vosti.info .

Thank you Claudio for all usefull feedbacks !

Telemobility 2007

Today we are attending the Telemobility Forum to compare Eriadne to other similar solutions, developers or bloggers. The result is pretty surprising, we didn't found equal services, but similar like vehicle GPS tracking. This make us proud to continue on this project with more resources.

Within the forum we beneficed of new ideas on how to make Eriadne evolve in a very interesting way by maintaining the original purpose.

Eriadne will become more social by letting the mobile user to share (emotionally, culturally, touristically, gartronomically, etc.) interesting places directly to other mobile users.

We had an interesting speech with Alberto D'Ottavi which gave us interesting points of view.

Eriadne 1.1.0

With the 1.1.0 edition we redesigned Eriadne internally tasks for the upcoming features and fixed some annoying bugs.

Upcoming features:
* we are hardly working on interfacing Bluetooth GPS devices for the mobiles that doesn't support the Location API JSR-179, however this will require the device to support at least Bluetooth API JSR-82.
* geocatching feature! You'll be able to send, with a simple SMS, your position to another Eriadne's user and let him reach you at that given position.

We would like to implement some other useful features and remove all annoying confirmation requests for obvious actions (like allow the application to get the GPS position, send the path, start on upcoming friend Eriadne's SMS), but it will require us to SIGN the application.
Unfortunately SIGNing an application cost money (about 1000$ per year) and this is killing for a free application model.

If you would like to help us keep Eriadne free you can by making a donation and we will assure new features to be always free.

Thank You a lot!

Joined eTourCamp

We finally joined eTourCamp for first public presentation.