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au’s Toshiba W54T is a cellphone with GPS, and a BREW application that can get location data and save to disk is preinstalled. I took this data to show the path on Google Maps.

Here is how:

Application name is “地図ビューアー”. Click on “簡易ハンディGPS” and location data will be displayed. Click on “アプリ設定” , then select “あしあと設定” then use menu “あしあと保存” to save GPS data taken up to that point. The data is like this:

本ファイルは、地図ビューアーにより出力されたGPS情報ファイルです。

出力日時:2008/02/28 11:49:51 +0900

+++GPSログ+++
888234473,130.682362,33.660194
888234490,130.682271,33.659990
888234502,130.682474,33.659684
888234510,130.682458,33.659749
888234522,130.682501,33.659808
888234529,130.682389,33.659781
888234540,130.682265,33.659781
888234552,130.682120,33.659845
888234560,130.681890,33.660124
888234572,130.681890,33.660027
888234580,130.681745,33.660027
888234592,130.681804,33.659968

In order to display this as path on Google Maps, this data needs to be converted to KML. GPSBabel, which also has Mac binary, is said to be able to do this. But, it always failed to convert the above formatted file for unknown reasons. When the above file is opened from GPSBabel, it is recognized as “DeLorme XMap/SAHH 2006 Native .TXT” but GPSBabel tried to read the first item as latitude not timestamp. Websites mentioned that the above format is “NMEA 0183 sentences”, so I tried converting it to KML and conversion finished, but resulting file does not contain any coordinate. Finally I manually converted it to KML by putting the latitudes and longitudes in between as follows:

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130.682362,33.660194
130.682271,33.659990
130.682474,33.659684
130.682458,33.659749
130.682501,33.659808
130.682389,33.659781
130.682265,33.659781
130.682120,33.659845
130.681890,33.660124
130.681890,33.660027
130.681745,33.660027
130.681804,33.659968

This KML file can be opened from Google Earth for viewing, or put somewhere and feed the URL to Google Maps, e.g., as follows:

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?q=http://bp.maltech.jp/gpstest/2008_0228_134831.kml

Here is software list for Mac (for Windows is here: http://arnold.siboro.org/blog/notes/?p=29)

BibleDesktop
BluePhoneElite 2
Camino
CrossOver
Cyberduck
EMP NS Connection
EPSON Scan
ffmpegX
Flip4Mac
Freemind-0_8_0
Gizmo Project
Google Earth
iSquint
JDiskReport
MarsEdit
NeoOffice
Picasa Web Albums Uploader
PsyncX
Remote Desktop Connection
Skim
Skype
Smultron
Thunderbird
Tooble
Transmission
Vienna
VLC
VMware Fusion
Wireshark
XMeeting
xTime Project 4
Yahoo! Messenger

Though the machine was bought after October 26 (the date Leopard’s sales started), I had to resort to “update” by the Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade DVD. Here are my steps:

1. Boot from Upgrade DVD and install Leopard afresh
I originally made 3 partitions, one is boot partition, one is for data, and the last one is for Windows. But Bootcamp refused to use these partitions.. and Disk utility could not remove the extra partitions, so I did this:

diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ disk0s3 disk0s5

to merge boot partition (disk0s3) with disk0s4 and disk0s5. Then Bootcamp is satisfied.

2. Use MBP bundled DVD and install bundled application
Upgrade DVD does not come with iLife, since iLife came not with Tiger but bundled with

3. Install Windows Vista Ultimate via Bootcamp.

After I stopped using Mac as daily personal machine in 1999 (when I bought Sony Vaio 505 to replace my PB520), today I returned to Mac as daily machine. Here are the softwares to make life as switcher easier:

Make Mail vertical oriented

http://harnly.net/software/letterbox/

Here are compulsory items on jadi file to be compatible with au’s openappli:

MIDlet-Name
MIDlet-Version
MIDlet-Vendor
MIDlet-Jar-URL
MIDlet-Jar-Size
MIDlet-Data-Size
MIDlet-1

Reference:

http://www.au.kddi.com/ezfactory/tec/spec/openappli.html