[ gpsdrive ] Fwd: GSM base stations

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Donnerstag 16 August 2007 schrieb Tobias Lorenz:
> > I woudn't add a separate button into gpsdrive, I would leave it to the
> > already present poi-management.
> > It should be enough, to have a script or a daemon, that writes the
> > information into the poi-table in gpsdrive's geoinfo database with a
> > special poi-type.
>
> Currently, it's the same with WLAN. The information is not stored in the
> POI table, because of additional information. Therefore I copied most of
> the wlan.[ch] functionality into gsm.[ch] files... and therefore there is
> another button.
>
currently the only reason why the wlan table is still alive, is not to break 
compatibility with kismet.
but the wlan table will be completely dropped in favour of the poi table soon.
we already have part of the infrastructure for the additional information, but 
it's not yet really used (only the friends service makes use of it now).

> > but as tweety already mentioned, you should wait until after the release
> > because then there will be also some significant changes to the database.
>
> Yes, that's true. I try to bring up this integration question again after
> the release and after I adopted the gsm functionality to the new database
> design.
>
good plan :-)


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