Last season I used gpsdrive w/micro$ft maps which were marginally useful for crossing Lake Ontario to Toronto. (They were ok for finding your way around the waterfront). I supplemented by using Google Earth for which I found a series of graphics someone had collected for the major harbours of the world of which fortunately Toronto was included. I has hoped by now someone had interfaced the free distribution from NOAA, but so far I haven't found it.<br>
<br>The marine users need to collect together and get the job done. Roch.Inst.of Tech nearby is famous for GIS, govt spy sats, etc. (hmm main lab bldg. is named after Pres. Lydon Johnson).<br>I would be willing to kick in a Ben Franklin to fund a coop student in the summer of code to paste something together.....how many others would due the same?<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:gpsdosm@trixtar.org">gpsdosm@trixtar.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:gpsdosm@trixtar.org">gpsdosm@trixtar.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bill Bickley wrote:<br> > I would dearly appreciate a tutorial on how to generate a GPSDrive map<br> > using the free NOAA EMC maps, tailored to the neophyte Linux user. A<br> > Google search of GPSDrive in marine applications turns up essentially<br>
> nothing.<br> <br> <br>Just a newbie myself, I wonder if soemeone could do a control<br> message to create a group for gps-drive/open-map, something like<br> alt.community-gps-map? I find ng's easier to search/browse/post.<br>
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