"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes: > > Hello FoxtrotGPS fellow developers... > > We have spotted FoxtrotGPS as possible software for our embedded Linux > flight computer to be used in motorized ultralight gliders. We are > developing electrical motor monitoring software and after looking to > GPS/map application, believe FoxtrotGPS is very close to our needs for > additional features related to flight tracking. > > As I understood Friends tracking feature currentluy is rudiment from > TangoGPS and is not working, as it is related to TangoGPS sever.
Yes, that's right--and with tangogps.org `parked' as it is, the friend-finder just causes a crash, so I've disabled it in bzr until we have another back-end to replace the tangogps.org service. If you search through the foss-gps archive, you'll find some preliminary discussion about possibilities. I'd still favour XMPP (XEP-0080 geolocation; and possibly publishing location via MUC, or publishing location via PubSub and using MUC for `shared roster'), but will happily listen to other proposals from people interested in helping do the work :) > We are developing some software which will synchronise files between > several flight computers ( on separate gliders flying within visibility > range) via SSH ( SCP or SFTP) via WIFI adhoc network. FoxtrotGPS > tracks, could theoretically also be synchronised live at a rate about > once per second. If FoxtrotGPS would have an option to redraw selected > tracks constantly while track files are updated by other system > processes, we would have live picture of glider tracks flying close to > each other. For us important to see not only where another glider is > located (friend position), but also his track parameters lift/sink > during the flight. > > The whole meaning of this idea is to broadcast flight conditions by the > first glider in the team for other team members to make decisions in > lifting airstream (thermals) searches. > > Could you plese let us know if somebody would be interested to make slight > FoxtrotGPS modifications which would allow live redrawing of selected > tracks. Sounds like a great idea; when we get the friend-finder working again, it seems like it should be relatively straight-forward to have it use the existing track-logging/-drawing (with slight modifications, as you say) to also log `friend tracks' in addition to the main track. And if you're offering to help with work on reviving the friend-finder, that's fantastic :) -- "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
