[talk-ph] GPS reservation request

[Jim Morgan]

Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. wrote, On Tuesday, 14 July, 2009 06:52 PM:
> Thanks Jim, that is very useful! Will definitely check out one of those
> converters.

You can probably get them anywhere, but I just found them on that site recently. 

> I was thinking of simply collecting all the data and process it when we
> come home to Magalang, but it seems increasingly intriguing to bring a
> laptop and do edits directly on the "road". Do you know if usable
> packages exit for Ubuntu that can act as a GPS with one of the loggers
> connected to the USB port?

According to Maning, the guys in Davao did just that:
> The davao guys murlwe and smackcode used the gpstogo units with tangogps:
> http://mapping.ideacampdavao.com/2009/06/diy-gps-navigation-rig.html

I'm not sure how that worked exactly, but tangoGPS uses gpsd, so anything that can communicate with that  will work. I was using a bluetooth dongle, but a USB connection would work just as well, as long as Ubuntu recognises it. You have to fiddle with rfcomm a bit I seem to remember. Hopefully those pointers will give you enough to go on. 

  USB -> rfcomm -> gpsd -> TangoGPS

The only 'gotcha' with the GT-31 is that its waypoints dump needs to be converted to a recognisable format on a windows box. So you'd sidestep that if you were logging directly to TangoGPS.

Jim

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