[ gpsdrive ] Few questions..

[Kwisatz Haderach]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> we then both upload the GPX files into the GPS
> via gpsbabel and show them on the gpsdrive display too with the
> file -> import -> gpx route option. then we run the lines as
> close as we can steer.

tell a fisherman he need to keep one eye on his net, second on boat
and third on PC and he'll start to throw fish on you.. which, (to be
honest, with today fish prices) is not bad if you can catch it :DDD..
Route should be dynamically generated (from devices GPS position) by
several parameters. GPX file generation is not a problem. Inserting it
into gpsdrive automatically might be, but with that module Guenther is
writing it could be piece of cake.

>> Several devices should send GPS location, I'm supposed to
>> receive it and display it on screen with device unique name
>> (which is also sent).
>> If no data - no display. I'm not interested in using databases
>> for this. As I've written in first mail, I can use way.txt,
>> but this is more promising. More elegant.
>
> which is essentially AIS delivered by friendsd, something we've
> been thinking about for a while, or pretty much what friendsd
> does already.

Kind of. Yes. Not full AIS, but it could be implemented quite easy
with this logic and several lines of code. In any
programming/scripting language.

> see also gpsd's multiple GPS input on one machine, and gpsdrive's
> --gpsd-server=<SERVER> option: "servername for NMEA server (if
> gpsd runs on another host)"

I will.. Thanks..

> Hamish

P.S.
Thank you people. Help is what I need and what I get from you!