GPS + Grass

[James Darrell McCauley]

J.R. Spidell (jspidell at cl08.cnde.iastate.edu) writes on 9 May 94:
>Has anyone used Grass to read in GPS type data from the PC's serial
>port?  If so, which pieces of GRASS was used?

Are you talking about simply transferring data from the PC (base station)
to your GRASS machine (work station), or do you have UNIX/GRASS on
the PC and wish to read in data directly from your mobile (hand held?)
unit? I.e., I do not understand *what's* connected *where* or what the
objective is.

The only thing that reads data from a serial port (that I'm aware of)
is v.digit.  You may, however, get it or 'kermit' (a non-GRASS
program) to do what you want.

"I've never tried this but..." perhaps the new configurable
v.digit could be taught to send the right codes so that
a mobile unit or PC could send the data through serial ports.
Could be a fun way to spend an afternoon ;-)

The only GPS stuff that I've played with (Trimble) came with DOS software
that wrote GRASS site lists...

--Darrell
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