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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 16 May 2014 Posts: 3

Hi all, just joined. I am Jas

Have a question.. is there a coder or programmer here?
Ive been looking for some free software on the net to simply display a red dot on top of a Google map that can be embedded in a website. The idea is to use a GPS tracking trick to make lads run around looking for something that isn't there. Laughing

If possible simple programming could be used to make the dot move whilst they watch it on the phoney website.
Any ideas?

Cheers

Jas

Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 1:12 pm

Like gps
This is a tried and trusted convincer.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 16 May 2014 Posts: 3

Nailgunner wrote:

Like gps
This is a tried and trusted convincer.

Tks Nailgunner, I did a Google search on the etrack.. by the looks of it that is an actual GPS Rx/Tx device.
What I'm thinking of is just a map of say for instance 'downtown Uganda' with a user positionable/controllable red dot that the lads can see on a website I created and direct them to. Then have them run around all over the place chasing it when in actual fact nothing is at the location.
ie: I would have given them the story that a locator beacon is attached to a bag of cash in the back of a taxi. The beacon sends its location data to the website, get to the dot get the cash kinda scenario.

Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 1:33 pm

Or so you would think Razz

Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 1:51 pm

One of our esteemed veterans - Yeawhatever - had two baits in which a Lad was sent in search of a box of cash fitted with a GPS tracker. One was drifting down the coast of West Africa, and the other down the River Nile.

Check out "The Road to Abu Sumbul" and "The Road to the Skeleton Coast".

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77146&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=road&start=0

Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 4:08 pm

It's a good convincer. Like I said Wink

I did something similar with a gmail auto responder, changing coordinates periodically as the lad mailed it repeatedly for updates. It got away from him, of course. The nice thing here was it was stupidly simple to do and put the lad to the added bother of doing his own coordinate translation.

Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 4:53 pm

Becoming a premium member has its perks.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 16 May 2014 Posts: 3

Yastreb wrote:

One of our esteemed veterans - Yeawhatever - had two baits in which a Lad was sent in search of a box of cash fitted with a GPS tracker. One was drifting down the coast of West Africa, and the other down the River Nile.

Check out "The Road to Abu Sumbul" and "The Road to the Skeleton Coast".

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77146&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=road&start=0

thanks yastreb, haha thats a real funny bait! i had a look at the catholiccal website to see how he did it but it says the page failed to load Sad

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