[GRASS-dev] GRASS on a cell phone

[Hamish]

> anybody else has tried this 
> but one of the students in my class got GRASS running on a cell phone.
> We will see what we can do with its GPS. If anybody else is
> running this and developing any related applications, please let us know,

you'll probably want to look at gpsd.berlios.de for handling the GPS,
"apt-get install gpsd"  (+ python-gps and gpsd-utils)


wrt simple consumable navigation:
 (as opposed to two-way annotation and feedback during field work & real
 GIS functions)


many moons ago for GRASS 5 I wrote a gps navigation interface which ran in
the Xmonitor,
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-general/2005-January/000452.html

but it was less than ideal and I abandoned it in favor of the GRASS 6
d.out.gpsdrive module to create backdrop tiles for the www.GpsDrive.de
navigation software. (debian package for that is wildly out of date,
I've got newer built if wanted-> see the osgeo live dvd 5.0)

since I mostly deal with ship navigation now-a-days I mostly am using the
r.out.kap_template Addon module to export to self-made nautical charts
(in fact habitat model results but the software doesn't know that) for
the highly successful www.OpenCPN.org navigation software. (see also the
live dvd)

viva v.{in|out}.gpsbabel


best,
Hamish