[GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Sampson, David wrote:

> There is also interest in an APRS application extension. Xastir is
> program for receiving and plotting APRS(tm) position packets
> (http://www.xastir.org/). My team will be developing communications
> means and would like to track assets in the field using APRS. A script
> to listen to, capture and manage APRS will be on the wish list in the
> future.

Let me know if I might be able to help.  I've written a Perl APRS
server that can talk to a serial port and has socket code, plus have
done similar in C for Xastir.

I also have some Perl code written by the APRS spec. editor which
parses out most APRS packets into human-readable text:  A good start
if you want to display such in GRASS.

If you want to also send out APRS packets, that'll be more involved.

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