Software Downloads

The current version of Place Lab is v2.1. Click on the appropriate link below to download the Place Lab toolkit for your platform. The platform-specific toolkit includes the source-code for Place Lab, all pre-compiled jar files and platform-specific executables and scripts.

• Windows XP (14.42 MB)

• Linux (12.95 MB)

• Mac OS X (12.89 MB)

• Windows CE/Pocket PC (11.68 MB)

• Series 60 Phone (11.68 MB)

• Barebones (with no platform-specific features or run scripts)
  
  • Tarball (10.64 MB) or
  • Zip file (12.20 MB)
    

  Use the barebones distribution if you wish to run or on platforms besides the ones listed above. Note: This will require some expertise on your part to get the system up and running. Do not use this if you are a novice user.

CVS Access

• CVS access for developers (read/write)
• Read-only CVS access
• Browse the CVS repository

Licenses

Place Lab was built using open-source and other redistributable components. The HTTP proxy was written by Johannes Plachy and JDBM was developed by Alex Boisvert. The Bluetooth Spotter uses BlueCove, an open-source implementation of the JSR-82. Communication with serial GPS units is handled through rxtx. Hsqldb and MySQL Connector/J are included. Apache Axis and the Xerces2 Java Parser are used to interact with SOAP web services. The Place Lab distribution also includes SWT from IBM. Here are the license agreements for all these components.

Place Lab has been released under the GNU license agreement.