Hi all, I'm planning another FoxtrotGPS release shortly--hopefully this weekend; to be included as changes since the last (0.99.4) release are only minor changes--mostly the incorporation of a bunch of fixes and some contrib scripts that Daniel Baumann has been carrying in Debian for a while, but also a fix for the `no straightforward way to un-load a track' issue (a small change merged from the latest tangoGPS codebase), and a fix for one issue that cropped up while I was trying to give someone a demo of what was supposed to be `1.0-quality code': if you've ever noticed that none of the map-tiles are shown until *all* of the map-tiles finish downloading, that should be fixed now.
Sadly, we've still yet to receive any kind of feedback from our sister project, tangoGPS, and Marcus (tangoGPS' maintainer) has released one revision since our original branchpoint that includes some changes that I don't believe we should incorporate at this time; though *most* of his most recent changes *are* things that we *do* clearly want, I'm not comfortable including the latest `live logging' additions; so it looks as though we've reached a point where we can't quite be a strict functional superset of tango (i.e.: `tangoGPS plus') like we have been so far. So I'm going to call this release `FoxtrotGPS 1.0' to mark the point where the two projects have started diverging, since I believe that the FoxtrotGPS mainline codebase is, at this point, basically a `1.0-quality tangoGPS'. Following that, I'll merge the HxM heartrate-monitor support from tango (which is a more substantial change) and hopefully get the first `1.1 series' release (1.1.0) out some time in the next week. One small thing that I'd like to see happen in the 1.1 series is that we should be able to directly output logfiles in a standard format like GPX; there's a question I have about that, though, which arises from the support for heartrate-monitors: what Marcus has done in tangoGPS is to just add another column to the end of his (CSV) `.log' files, where he records the heartrate as sampled at that point. There's no such element in any version of the GPX spec, of course, so how should we go about logging heart-rate data (or misc. data?) if we convert to using GPX as our primary log-format? Is there some `vital signs' XML schema for heartrate-logging that integrate into a GPX file? Should we invent one? Or should we just log the heartrate data into a separate file? Any thoughts? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ This message is sent to you from [email protected] mailing list. Visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps to manage your subscription For more information, check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS
