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Ron Valstar
front-end developer

coding on an android

I’ve always found that taking ones computer on vacation is rather pointless. Then why go on vacation! I guess in this day and age you cannot bring your phone along anymore either.

So I’m hooked to programming. When we were in Mediteranian paradise I found out that the My Tracks app on my Hero also exports the GPS data to CSV and I just couldn’t help myself. I just had to write a JavaScript visualisation… in a rudimentary text editor on a HTC Hero, without JavaScript error notices, without internet acces, without being able to enter TAB characters. I didn’t have anything better to do.

The following takes place here. The first is a drive from Trstenik to Dra?e, the second a walk from Dra?e to Janjina. The line thickness represents the elevation and the color the speed (both relatively).