On 8/10/05, Chuck Hast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/05, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jeff Laughlin wrote: > > > > > I've written a Perl module, Ham::APRS::Parser, for parsing APRS > > > packets, and I've released it under the GPL. You can find it here: > > > http://aprs.n1ywb.com/Ham-APRS-Parser-0.01/ > > > > > > It takes the packet string, parses it, and returns a hash with the > > > data in a consistent and easy to process format. Currently it reliably > > > returns position, from and to calls, digi-path, symbols, and Mic-E > > > status reports from normal position reports, compressed position > > > reports, and Mic-E position reports. More work is needed to fully > > > implement the APRS protocol. > > > > 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? 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.
Yes that is certainly a possibility... In fact I am working on that right now! My next code release will be a complete FOSS findu.com replacement, with a postgresql backend. http://www.trackulator.com/ Expect to see it sometime in the next few weeks. - 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
