25.3.2008 - Eriadne 1.2.6

With this update we fixed few little problems:

• zoom in/out of the path with up and down joystick
  
• move back in the time (left and right) while zoom in follow the position on path
• fixed (hopefully) the erroneous replacement of the email-ID with a number
  

Have a nice excursions !

Swiss National TV Broadcast News 17.02.2008 - Eriadne Announcement

12.2.2008 - Notified first real rescue case

Is with great surprise that we received the call of Claudio, and expert paraglider, notifying us that he could get out of a trouble with Eriadne after falling in a mountain area with 60-100cm of snow.

Here some pictures, and here his story:

(in the picture a rescuer of REGA dropped with helicopter)

Sono caduto alle 14:00 e dopo aver telefonato a mia moglie e a 2 miei amici che conoscevano la zona, avevano già visto il mio tracciato su Eriadne e sapevano dove ero.
Alle 15:05 ho tolto il Parapendio dal Larice e comunicato con cellulare che partivo a piedi, ma non sapevo ancora se risalire o scendere.

Durante il cammino verso il fondo Valle alle 15:50 non ricevevo più il segnale GSM, non potevo vedere quanto segnale rimaneva perché avevo messo il telefono e il ricevitore GPS nella tasca superiore della mia tuta in quanto a volte sprofondavo fino alla vita.

Dopo 2h e 30 di cammino con il mi sacco da 18 Kg ero stanco e fradicio, la notte si avvicinava (17:33) ed ho deciso di guardare se avevo il segnale, avendo un piccolo segnale che veniva e andava ho mandato le coordinate con Eriadne a mia moglie e di chiamare l'elicottero alle 17:56.

La REGA è arrivata alle 18:45 e mi hanno prelevato con il verricello.

Chiesto poi alla Rega se erano giuste le coordinate per trovarmi, mi hanno risposto che erano giuste e che non hanno avuto problemi per trovarmi (valle Stretta e boschiva)

Many thanks to Claudio.

Eriadne 1.2.5 base feature video explained

Presenting Eriadne with few words on a newspaper or on official website is different and because of new technologies involved it has less impact than than showing it with a real phone. So we made this little video that shows almost all you can do with Eriadne on your mobile and trough www.eriadne.org. (Since YouTube video may lack of quality you may download better quality AVI file of about 40Mb)

Sit down and enjoy !

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 !

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:

Eriadne 1.2.3 RC1

Dear Frieds,
We could not let you without a X-Mas present.
Thanks to Paolo Attivissimo we could test Eriadne on a SonyEricsson P1i and fix some user interface problems that made a bit hard to find some buttons (Exit, Send Path, etc).
The new version come also with some bugfix and a big enhancement in reducing the amount of bytes sent over the air when sending a path.

Have a nice excursions!