[ gpsdrive ] Race track map

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Freitag 21 März 2008 schrieb Alex Garbino:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to make a display that shows the position of a car on a
> racetrack. Is there a way to use gpsdrive to do this?
>
maybe you could use friendsd for that.
you need to have a notebook running gpsdrive in the car, that has some kind of 
network connection to your computer used for display.

> Alos, I collected preliminary data on the track, but I collected the data
> using gpspipe -w; which is a gpsd format. I can't find a way to convert it
> into any useful format. Is there a way to do this? Also, is gpx the
> 'standard; format in which to record data?
>
you can record tracks inside gpsdrive, but gpx is also a standard format that 
can be imported.
you could use gpxlogger or cgpslogger for this if you are already using gpsd.

> Appendix:
> This is what the data looks like:
this looks like NMEA data, which can be converted to almost anything else with 
http://www.gpsbabel.org

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