Event Logger
From OpenTom
| TomTom Event_Logger | |
|---|---|
| Integrated tracking and logging application for TomTom devices. | |
| Properties | |
| Developer: | amacri at tiscali dot it |
| Version: | 9.0 (23.01.2010) |
| Architecture: | ARM Linux |
| Language: | Building blocks written in C; process written in bsh (zsh extension for embedded applications running within TomTom devices) |
| Comment: | http://web.tiscali.it/macri/Event_Logger |
| Dependencies | |
| Requires: | Any TomTom all-in-one device running NavCore version 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| See also: Software | |
Documentation of Event_Logger 9 is being developed.
Please visit the Event_Logger site.
Event_Logger is a tracking and logging application enhancing TomTom GO as well as any all-in-one TomTom GPS device. It can log TomTom GO events to Itinerary files that are managed by TomTom GO like native Itinerary files created through the ordinary user interface; besides, Event_Logger can produce standard GPX XML files where events are represented as waypoints and the whole route is logged through a sequence of track points obtained by querying TomTom GO for location information at short periodical intervals; the produced tracking will result bound to the roads through the assistance of both the TomTom GO mapping and the ASN feature (if active) in order to normalize tracking even without proper GPS reception; other than this default process to produce snapped-to-road GPX tracks, an additional option allows retrieving raw GPS data not intermediated by TomTom GO, useful for off-road tracking and also including altitude; Itinerary records and GPX waypoints take account of boot, resume, suspend events and optionally other information generated by manually tapping on the available (and extensible) logging menu icons. Other than generating Itinerary and GPX files, Event_Logger can create POIs (Points of Interest) for each event (or for a configurable subset).
The production and archiving of Itinerary and GPX tracks is completely automatic; no user intervention is needed to regularly split files upon new paths, save and catalogue them as well as store old information in compressed archives. The history of all travelled paths can be accessed by browsing the Itn directory of the SD card (or HD).
For instance, Event_Logger helps answering the following questions:
- What itinerary did I travel yesterday?
- When did I start driving this morning?
- How long did I take?
- Which is the current altitude and speed?
- How can I remind precise positions?
- When exactly I travelled there?
- Which is the altitude of this place?
- Which was the maximum uphill and downhill slope of my previous trip?
- Where is the moon now?
- And so on.
The GPX files collected by Event_Logger allow performing any kind of post-processing, batch analysis, statistics and file conversion together with XSLT stylesheets or external applications (file converter, GIS, mapping and analysis tools running on PC or legacy systems).
An XSL file included with Event_Logger allows Internet Explorer to automatically transform each GPX file into an HTML interactive report with zoomable graphical map from Google Maps, including coloured tracks and fully clickable waypoints; the map provides advanced functionalities and is followed by detailed tables analyzing almost all data registered inside the GPX file, with computation of distance, speed, altitude and slope related to each fix, segment, trace or whole file. Each table can be easily imported to Excel. Besides, two delimiters can be easily set over the map in order to allow interactive trip analysis.
Download
- Updated description and software: download it at http://web.tiscali.it/macri/Event_Logger/Download.htm
See also: Event Logger - Old Versions
