On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Chuck Hast wrote: > > Have you considered tracking down the Perl code that Ian (the APRS > > spec editor) created which decodes packets? That was quite > > complete and fully decoded everything similar to the "listen" > > command. > > Could this be used to dump APRS data into a db like MySQL?
Perl? Or Ian's program? Yes to the first. Combine Either Ian's or this new program with a bit of Perl database code and you can inject this into a database. I've done a bunch of sybperl and Perl5 talking to Sybase and it works quite well. > I am interested > in doing something like that, but have to learn about db. I work with them up > to a certain point, time to learn the rest and getting APRS data into a db > would > be a neat exersize. Yep! MySQL has some spatial extensions which would be useful (so you can query on lat/long). PostgreSQL with the PostGIS extensions also gives you this. I've been hoping to play with these at some point myself. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "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!" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
