Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Eriadne 1.2.5 - Geotagging, zoming, timebrowsing and more

Eriadne is time by time growing in features mobile side and server side. The new version comes with:

Geotagging and time-browsing
At any point of your path you can add a comment and/or some tags to categorize your Point of Interest or excursion jurnal. As result, when the path is sent to the server, you may find red squared labels indicating that a comment can be read.
A comment may be added with '5' key on your mobile keyboard or clicking with your mobile joystick.
You may review comments or add comments in past points by navigating backwards or forward in the path using '4' and '6' keys, respectively LEFT and RIGHT of the joystick.

Zooming and scaling
Making long excursions we realized that after a while the path became only a pile of red spots and details hidden by automatic zooming.
With '2' or '8' keys or UP and DOWN of the joystick you may zoom into current location and see more details. To give you a way to compare to the reality we added an automatic scale indicator up-left of the screen.

Online Map legend

Information to show on the dynamic map grow more and more, we need to clarify a bit:
  • Starting point of the excursion
  • Time and coordinates indicator (does not mean the mobile has sent something)
  • Last position that the user sent to the server
Up to now it's all folks. Stay tuned, new interesting features coming soon! if you have wishes just share with us !

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Successful Rescue exercise for Eriadne

13.01.2008 Switzerland - Eriadne has been used to start a rescue exercise with Swiss Alpine Rescue groups, REGA helicopter support and SAC-CAS. The execise successfully succeeded in a couple of hours.

The rescue teams judged the system innovative in the mountain incident preventions, drastically improves the search efficacy and helps in better preparing the intervention.

Here you can find some specific moments of the day.



and the rescue path: