[ gpsdrive ] marine or aviation specific package

[Doug Robinson]

But wait there is more:
And instead of tracking your friends, this feature would be upgraded to
integrate the AIS traffic.  All this would then be loaded on your smb stick
and you would then have a portable solution that would turn your laptop (or
in my case the XO machine) into real competition against the $4k marine
gadget.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:08 AM, chris h <chris123 at magma.ca> wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 03:59:58 Hamish wrote:
>
>
> > How would a marine or aviation specific version differ from what we have
> > now?
>
> Script package and tabs/buttons dedicated to downloading maps and
> processing
> them "automagically" from  wms or other server sources. Its the processing
> of
> tiles that's really the issue and that could be automated in theory. So for
> a
> marine application of gpsdrive, downloading maps would then be as simple as
> expedia sources. At this time I think this would be limited probably to
> NOAA
> mapping sources however.
>
> There would be no dependency on openstreetmap, mapnick or any other
> component
> to keep the package as small and robust as possible.
>
> Those are the two big issues I can think of, but as I don't know the
> program
> well enough at this point I cant really comment further.
>
> Since gpsdrive cannot be used for route planning as described in the docs,
> and
> I understand why, perhaps there is a workaround as that would complete a
> simple and basic marine ECS.
>
> --
> /ch
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