[ gpsdrive ] Race track map

[Alex Garbino]

The data is gpsd format, similar to but not NMEA (enough so that gpsbabel
can't handle it).
I'm just interested in my car's position (so I can look at split times,
etc), not other cars.
What would be a good program to run that just has as a background a basic
map, and then overlays the position on top? I don't want a full-blown
navigation system, somthing more like can be seen on the video at
http://www.trackvision.net/

but with a background image/map.

Alex


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Guenther Meyer <d.s.e at sordidmusic.com>
wrote:

> 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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