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Released an update to the JSONFeed plugin for WordPress. It addressed several open issues, noted compatibility with the latest version of WordPress, and adds comment feeds for parity with the defaults.

Setting up Compass with GPS Logger for Android

After much debate about whether to build my own solution or install one, I installed Aaron Parecki’s Compass.

Compass is a GPS Tracking server. It is specifically tailored to an iOS app Aaron developed called Overland. Which creates a problem as I am an Android user.

So, I needed an Android app that could send data to Compass. I tried GPS Logger. It is a popular GPS Logging app, although I’m not sure if it was intended for 24 hour a day use. It seems the biggest use cases it is used for would be gps tagging of photos and tracking hacks.

It supports logging to a custom URL. THe following settings have to be set

  • URL: https://example.org/api/input?token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • HTTP Header: Content-Type: application/json
  • HTTP Method: POST
  • HTTP Body: { “locations”: [ { “type”: “Feature”, “geometry”: { “type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [%LON, %LAT, %ALT] }, “properties”: { “timestamp”: “%TIME”, “speed”: %SPD, “direction”: %DIR, “activity”: “%ACT”, “provider”: “%PROV”, “battery_level”: %BATT, “horizontal_accuracy”: “%ACC”, “annotation”: “%DESC”, “device_id”: “%SER” } } ] }

The above sends a variety of preset parameters GPS Logger provides in the format Compass expects.