[OSGeo-Discuss] GPS collection

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:45:46AM -0200, pmarc wrote:
> 2006/2/15, Philip Mark Donaghy <philip.donaghy at gmail.com>:
> > 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.

E.g.

 http://www.gpsbabel.org/

See also
 http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.in.gpsbabel.html
 http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.in.garmin.html
for a GIS integration.

Markus