[GRASSLIST:260] Re: FlightGear & GRASS

[Buchan Milne]

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# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail. wrote:
> I plan to use GRASS and FlightGear (the flight simulator)
> side-by-side, to fly over my data.  Anyone tried this?  Any suggestions?
>

Note that there is already an application that does this, using the
terrain data Flightgear has, namely Atlas (IIRC you can find it at
http://atlas.sourceforge.net).

gpsdrive can also do similar things, but is targetted more at driving.

> FlightGear will write current position in Garmin and NMEA formats (GPS)
> both to a file and to a socket.  If I can read the socket with GRASS, I
> could display current position+data on GRASS iin near-real-time.  HOw can
> a read a unix(linux) socket?

Using bash(1), or perl, or c etc.

BTW, I still think some better gps integation in grass would be nice,
but it's not necessary for what you want (I think).

Regards,
Buchan

(1)
For example, using a gpsd-type program such as distributed with gps3d:
$ less < /dev/tcp/localhost/2222

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