[ gpsdrive ] marine or aviation specific package

[chris h]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 08:53:12 Hamish wrote:

> by definition those with the hardware would be the driving force of the
> development. So I wouldn't worry about that aspect -- support without
> users is an academic exercise in window-shopping.

agreed...but given that there is a growing user base of UMPC users in the 
marine sector many of which ship with linux variants, the only drawback is 
there is no suitable linux based ECS. AIS is a big issue in the States and 
while there are some glitches still the concern wrt to border security is 
driving the issue fast and furious.  

gpsdrive is great for what it does mind you and you can push it into many 
additional functions thanks to the help of folks on this list. 

> And, FWIW, some of us happen to work for research institutions that
> operate their own ships.

Understood 

> > As said, this stuff aint cheap. From a technical side, once the
> > standards are stabilized, the programming would not be that difficult
> > and could be done by talented hands and minds. Count me out, not a
> > programmer but any stretch of the imagination.
>
> I would guess that gpsd would be the place to code this, not directly
> into gpsdrive. Or at least a standalone AIS daemon.

Ah...the light goes on. You are correct. 

> On the fly rendering of S-57 ENC data via GDAL/OGR + OpenEV's libS52 is a
> much higher priority to me than AIS or radar/weather overlay.
>
> (I had forgotten about the weather overlay task, must have a look at that
> again)

http://zygrib.free.fr/

If you translate this page: (should come through in english)
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzygrib.free.fr%2F
you get an idea of where they are going. Development however seems to be 
limited to an in house affair rather then open. 

They just released ver 2.0 I noticed, Will have to check it out as 1.8 was 
pretty impressive. 

Best regards and thanks for the response.

/ch