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Bodylog

Bodylog is a combination Android app and server that allows you to collect data on you. It's essentially a hosted version of Google Latitude; the differences are that, since you own your data, there are no privacy concerns, and since the data is written out in CSV as it's gathered, you can perform complex queries on your location.

Using Bodylog

First, get the server up and running. I'll write how to do that once I've actually written the server. The server has one handler: POST requests to /ping (used for updating location). The full URL (with ping on the end) is your endpoint; if I run my server on example.com, my endpoint is http://example.com:8010/ping.

After you install the Android app, you'll see that that app shows you a "body identifier". This is a randomly-generated tag that is sent along with all of your requests to your Bodylog server. You should configure your server to accept only this body identifier (or multiple, if you want to share the server with others). The server will ignore requests that do not have a whitelisted body identifier sent as a POST variable.

You can configure where the server stores your data; by default, it stores it at /tmp/bodylog.db. Output is a sqlite3 database with one table, location, with columns time, device, latitude, longitude, altitude.

Note that altitude is going to be incredibly unreliable, because Bodylog uses network location to save on battery usage.

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