[OSGeo-Discuss] GPS collection

[pmarc]

2006/2/15, Philip Mark Donaghy <philip.donaghy at gmail.com>:
> I have a common GPS that can collect data at 10ft accuracy. I would
> like to build a library/tool that can extract the data from it and
> store it directly in the file format of my choice regardless of the
> GPS brand.

Hi Phil,

perhaps you aren't aware of gpsd [1], gpsbabel, gpx2shp, gpstrans, et al.
Maybe you could just wrap those utilities together, as the bulk of the
work seems already done.

[1] http://gpsd.berlios.de
sorry, but I have no url for the remainder.

good luck.

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