agoodale

Sorry, no Powerbuilder. Why not MS SQL Server Express 2008? It's free and does triggers, etc.

shovelhd

Outsourced clouds are big on hype and short on delivery. There are many, many issues with them.

waterrockets 

This is turning out to be a real pain. I have been too busy on the road to spend much time on it, but I'm now to the point of seeing what it will take to write my own renderer that will produce a bitmap projection from a tile database using an extent. You know, there are companies who's whole business is solving this problem (with a little dressing up on the user side)... just nobody has delivered any APIs to solve it on Android.

On the surface, this is a really fun problem, and I'll enjoy learning the ins and outs of GIS, but I have too much other crap to do to get this product out the door.

mattm

Ah... a nice helping of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.. tasty!

Given the fact that a lot of websites we all visit are hosted in one cloud or another, it seems to work for many of us daily. I'm not saying it will work for every situation, but it's an option for some, and many have gone that way.

At any rate, I'm just glad I'm not in IT.. I hope you guys have fun with those servers! I'll be over here on the client-side, in my quiet office. Actually there's a server room right across the hallway, and it's super-loud every time they open the door. I feel for you guys.

shovelhd

Like most outsourcing, it can work exceedingly well for certain things. What you don't hear enough of are the issues.

Websites are perfect for clouds.

Please note that I have nothing against virtualization, which is the engine of the cloud. It's here to stay and can really leverage hardware assets. It is not the right answer for every application, just like all of the technological breakthroughs before it.

Scummer

Mph... Bill Gates and his stupid 640k remark...
Time to order another two 4GB sticks.

milliron

I love the fact that we don't allow triggers, etc here. Databases are for relational data storage.

mattm

What's wrong with triggers? Are you saying a T-SQL db isn't relational b/c it supports triggers?

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This is why I gave up on Android development. (many different OS versions, few users are on the latest)

At least, that was one of the reasons.. at first it seemed so awesome, since I'm good with Java and suck at Objective-C... but it's a huge headache to compile for 4+ platforms, that don't all have the same featuresets. I hope they solve that problem at some point..

agoodale

+.5 I avoid triggers for the most part. But there are some instances where they are useful. "Databases are for relational data storage" is too strict a rule to live by. An application such as an interface between 2 DBs could be built entirely with T-SQL. I wouldn't want to bring in another tool and increase the level of complexity just to conform to some rule.

milliron

I am not saying that. I'm just saying that disallowing triggers simplifies administration and troubleshooting from a DBA perspective.

We live by it here (big financial website). Service architecture! I like it.

bam

boredom drove me to augment reality


i should probably just go for a ride...

Scummer

You're hitting the brakes on an easy turn at 36mph? I think you need to curb your fear a little.

bam

taking descending advice from someone in indiana would be like having your mom tell you how to pee standing up. it's weird and it just doesn't work.

ok, that was a bit snarky... but you sort of asked for it. the middle section of the pass can have some mean gusts of wind which can easily blow you off course. otherwise yes, it's not at all technical and wouldn't really require much if any braking.

this being the geek thread my point was more like, hey check out this software i wrote that overlays your trajectory on the road surface...

Gray99

Kensuf.... not sure if you're still looking, but I just found this and thought of your predicament

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/LCS...l#xtor=RSS-181

WCroadie

I can only dream of descents like that, unless my wife finally agrees to move out west, which I don't think will ever happen.

Scummer

Touche!

And yes, the overlay is interesting from a geeky view.

mattm

To that end, what API(s) are you using to get at the data and write the overaly? What language are you using?

waterrockets 

Nice work! I'm assuming Android or iPhone? Is it augmenting the video, or is that a video of screen captures done in real time?

(Just curious. I've written an AR engine for Android)

bam

it's a mix of c and objective c. i'm taking video from a contour cam and parsing the data from the corresponding tcx/fit file. overlay rendered using opengl and video export using quicktime. i haven't used dashcam but it's something along those lines. i had a moral objection to paying for something i could easily do myself

i'm curious to see what contour will do with their gps/bluetooth cam preview, but i've got an older model myself. it's not realtime AR in the sense that it's not "predicting" your trajectory, but rather using your lat/lon/altitude to draw it from your current position. you can of course review the video with the overlay before exporting.

and i'm not doing much atm to try to compute a proper up vector for the camera. meh. but have a couple ideas about how this might work. ultimately, i'd still have to do some guesstimation to get the banking to look right unless i collected that data.

here's what the interface looks like to tweak the alignment:

shovelhd

Woah. I am very impressed. Coaches would have a field day with this.

slynkie

that's freaking cool. open source?

waterrockets 

I'm still not getting it. Is there a display while you're riding, or is this a post-ride visualization only?

bam

post.

and i think i meant "dashware" -- although contour announced some sort of realtime preview for their gps cam at CES earlier this month.

i haven't released it under any sort of license. just given it to a couple friends to try out. really don't plan on trying to make money off of it either. i was sort of hoping to release something and get people to donate to cancer research if they used it.

ericm979

Nice! How long did it take to process the video above? What did you use for the FIT file parsing?

If you don't want to hassle with open sourcing it yourself you could contribute it to GoldenCheetah.

kensuf

crap. Campus PPD just told me, "No sir, that unit you thought was 15 tons is actually only a 7.5 ton unit".

Well.. Let's see, my calculated heat load was around 6 tons, and then the left over space cooling is substantial, so yeah that'd explain why it isn't keeping up...

I need to have a long talk with the engineer who told me that unit was 15 tons. Unfortunately, tracking him down as of late has been about as easy as finding unicorns.