Dr Samual Mann at Otago Polytechnic has done work in this area.
Might be worth contacting him.
Steven
On 5 Oct 99, at 22:25, Tony Blomfield wrote:
> HI.
> I have an urge to write my own GPS plotter software. This is purely a
> hobby.
>
> I am interested in taking a paper map, and scanning it in, then writing
> some picture clean up and documenting stuff. I also need to figure out how
> to map the lat long coordinates on to the image, which map projections to
> use etc Tec. I suppose I will then store the images in an IB database, for
> later retrieval. The next step is to bring in the NMEA message from the
> GPS and plot the real-time coordinates on the picture. Hopefully this
> part is straightforward. It is the picture conversion clean up and
> coordinate mapping that has me stymied.
>
> If anybody knows of any components I should look at, or can point me at
> any knowledge base on the subject, I would be grateful.
>
> TIA,
>
> Tony.
>
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