Between telemarketers annoying me into getting my upgrade to Asterisk 1.6 finished and the hasty long-overdue road-trip back to and from Idaho again, I’m reminded of an idea that has been fluttering around in the back of my head, not unlike a small bat in the top of a bell tower.<\/p>\n
My vast hordes of cult-like fans<\/span> always seem to want to know where I am. This is obviously an issue in a case where I’m going to be driving 1600 miles, then turning around and driving back, over the span of 4-6 days. It would be pretty easy to set up something on a web page somewhere with some kind of map. The real problem is – how do I update the map?<\/p>\n In some places, I could stop for a while, haul out Igor<\/span>, boot up, find a public wireless network connection to the internet, and do the update that way. However, that’s time-consuming and awkward, and I want to get this trip successfully completed as quickly as I can. Plus, it’s not always easy to find public network access points, especially through the barren, windy, snowdrift-covered wastelands of Southern Wyoming where a chunk of my route will take me. I have a hypothetical solution, however…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have a working Asterisk<\/a> box…and while there are a number of places where the cellphone reception goes away, cellphone access is a lot more ubiquitous than internet access. Here’s what I’m thinking:<\/p>\n I want to try to set up a simple Asterisk application that’ll allow me to dial in, and then key in my latitude and longitude (which I can just read off of my handy little GPS unit). Hypothetically, I can even have it record a voice message afterwards pretty easily – I’m pretty sure I remember seeing a built-in function for that. Then, the application takes the latitude and longitude and automatically turns it into a map (this could be something as simple as generating a Google Maps URL or something as complex as sending a Twitter or Laconica<\/a> update while generating an embedded map showing the location and a download link and\/or embedded audio player where one could get to the automatically geostring-tagged<\/a> audio file for live updates (which one might get through an RSS feed)…<\/p>\n Does anyone out there care? Assuming I can get it working, I’d be willing to share what I come up with…<\/p>\n (As always, ideas are welcome…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Between telemarketers annoying me into getting my upgrade to Asterisk 1.6 finished and the hasty long-overdue road-trip back to and from Idaho again, I’m reminded of an idea that has been fluttering around in the back of my head, not unlike a small bat in the top of a bell tower. My vast hordes of … Continue reading Geotagging through Asterisk?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,13,40,29,21,148,33,2],"tags":[141,277,372,82,371,80,373,578,374,583,47],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-nerdity","category-feedback-solicitation","category-me-me-me","category-neogeography","category-netcasts","category-play-with-it","category-telephony","category-the-big-room","category-where-was-i","tag-asterisk","tag-audio","tag-computer","tag-geotagging","tag-hacking","tag-mapping","tag-microblogging","tag-neogeography","tag-netcasting","tag-telephony","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}