30.6.2008 - Eriadne follows Claudio Vosti in a paraglider journey of 300Km

30th June 2008 - Claudio Vosti take off with his paraglide from Ticino, Switzerland flying to Monaco in several legs. Eriadne will enable Claudio to communicate on his pages www.vosti.info his position and the daily path.

In bocca al lupo!



Eriadne 1.2.5 - Video demo

What best way of a video to demo Eriadne features ? Enjoy the video !
More info on Blog.... do not forget to leave your comments!



Example of a paragliding path viewable with Google Earth:
KML 2D KML 3D


1. Requirements

Mobile phone with integrated GPS or paired with bluetooth GPS

Available models currently on market and tested with Eriadne:

Integrated GPS: Nokia N95, N82, 6110 Navigator(+AGPS)
External Bluetooth GPS:
Nokia N93, N81, N80, N78, N76, N75, N73, N71, E90, E70, E65, E62, E61, E60, E51, E50, 6680, 6500s, 6500c, 6300, 6288, 6280, 6270, 6234, 6230, 6151, 6131, 6121c, 6120c, 6111, 6085, 6080, 6070, 6030, 6020, 5700, 5500, 5310XpressMusic, 3500c, 3250, 3110c, 2630, 2626
SonyEricsson P1i*, W880i, W810i, W800i, K800i, K800iv, K750i, W610i, M600i, V600i, W580i
LG KU990
Samsung SGH-U700-Vodafone, SGH-L760
WindowsMobile, Smartphone, PocketPC:
HTC Kaiser (TyTN II P4550), Artemis (P3300), Trinity (P3600)
FUJITSU SIEMENS Pocket LOOX 8xx
Other Symbol MC35, RIM Wireless Handheld


This project has just started. If you try other models where runs successfully run, please report your model to us.
Other models that supports Location API are listed here.

*: some features may be difficult to use because of the graphical interface of the system of the specific phone model. We will update soon.

2. Download the application and create your account

New version since 30.6.2008 (what changed?)

Enter the following address in your mobile web/wap browser 
    http://www.eriadne.org/get
You will receive a confirmation request via email and will have 48 hours to confirm, after which you will not be able to get your path online. Pravacy policy: We will keep your email confidential and will not share your email with third parties. Your email is needed as unique ID.

3. Run the application

Open the application with the icon:
Eriadne
Answer YES to the request to allow the application to get your position and allow the application to follow you.
From then Eriadne will get your location every 15 seconds and show on screen.
On screen you'll get other information like :
  • coordinates (CH1903 or WGS84) and height in meters.
  • the geographic path and the height history
  • compass (geomagnetic or based on relative movement)
  • the direction of the location and distance



If you would like to inform someone about your position hit the button menus and choose among:
  • Send SMS to send a single SMS with Swiss coordinates, longitude, latitude and height via SMS to one of your contacts.
  • Send to Eriadne to send your position to another person who has Eriadne. Very useful feature for GEOCaching.
  • Send Path to send all saved positions since the application start to Eriadne server. You will be asked to specify a GPRS connection and confirm to use it.
  • Automatic Send same as like Send Path sends saved positions every 5/15/30 or 60 minutes to Eriadne server. The first time, you will be asked to specify a GPRS connection and confirm to use it.

4. See it on map