[OSGeo-Discuss] GPS collection

[Bob Basques]

All,

A few years ago we worked on a project that collected the data with 
Hardware libs that translated to a database storage schema.   The 
database was then queried for any of the GPS devices.

This setup was nice since the different hardware items each had their 
own Data comm LIB for dissecting the GPS data and converting it too a 
common data type in the database.  Once in the database, the output 
options are endless.  We had all hardware in the project IP based, so we 
could query in realtime, with about a 7-10 second time lag for the 
tracking.  Also with the database approach, we had a history of all GPS 
tracks to work from.

As far as integration into other projects, it was very easy, since 
anyone that could access a database could use the tool.   I would really 
like to get it fleshed out further.

I've been wanting to get back to it, just haven't had a GPS project to 
leverage the work against.   Just sounding off on it.

bobb


pmarc wrote:

>2006/2/15, Philip Mark Donaghy <philip.donaghy at gmail.com>:
>  
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>>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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