That sounds great, I think a prser for incoming APRS is probably what is required. I know very little about APRS so I thought it was uni-directional. Could you also send locational taks, like a "now go here" type packet back through the system?
It sounds like there is a pretty good skill set out there with some ready made pieces that only need to be packaged together to fulfill the neds and then tweeked as time goes on. Cheers -----Original Message----- From: Curt, WE7U [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:34 To: Sampson, David Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [GRASS-user] Search and Rescue Volunteer Groups On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Sampson, David wrote: > There is also interest in an APRS application extension. Xastir is > program for receiving and plotting APRS(tm) position packets > (http://www.xastir.org/). My team will be developing communications > means and would like to track assets in the field using APRS. A script > to listen to, capture and manage APRS will be on the wish list in the > future. Let me know if I might be able to help. I've written a Perl APRS server that can talk to a serial port and has socket code, plus have done similar in C for Xastir. I also have some Perl code written by the APRS spec. editor which parses out most APRS packets into human-readable text: A good start if you want to display such in GRASS. If you want to also send out APRS packets, that'll be more involved. -- Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
