RE: Re: Vehicle Tracking

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is something that I have a passing interest in for my personal use,
since I have a (sort of) company car (not technically, but this is a tax
thing)... Anyway, I need to record business and private mileage seperately
which currently is a pretty manual process (and a boring one too), that
seems should be ripe for automation.

I have an iPaq based satnav system in the car, but this doesn't offer any
form of journalling of trips made.

What I would like is a system that when I turn it on, first prompts me with
a very simple 2-option question of "business" or
"private". Thereafter it
records the "vital statistics" of each journey made (i.e. date,
time &
location of setting off, date, time & location of arrival, distance
travelled etc.) and logs this away somewhere, either in a pocket Access DB,
or an XLS or CSV file, which I can then upload at the end of every month
and
query...

This would be in addition to performing the usual satnav duties....

Is there any pocket PC satnav software that offers such a feature?

TIA

Paul G.





>From: "Dean Smith" <dean@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Vehicle Tracking
>Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:04:50 +0100
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>Dean
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>if you're serious I know someone who has implemented a couple of
systems
>for
>Couriers, using cheap and cheerful gprs systems in vans to track them
and
>showing the results in Microsoft Mappoint. I can give you email and
contact
>details if you want to store them away for when it becomes more than
>curiosity ?
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>Dean
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>  -----Original Message-----
>From: Dean Barrett [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 04 September 2004 11:57
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Vehicle Tracking
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>   Phil
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>   This is one of the things we are trying to deal with.
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>   The new tax laws about to come in me that all my guys will suddenly
be
>   paying 1k a year for a van rather than a couple of hundred, unless
as we
>are
>   informed, we can prove that the vehicles are not used for private
>mileage.
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>   But as with all these things, i think i've got to get their
permission
>to
>be
>   tracked :)
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>   Dean.
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