[Openstreetmap] Re: To the debianistas

[SteveC]

* @ 06/07/05 09:43:51 AM pere at hungry.com wrote:
>  - Use gpsd and gpxlogger, and do some log rotation based on timespan
>    or file length.
> 
>  - Upload using http and fall back to email.  This work on more
>    networks than the email solution.

Sounds good.

> gpsd these days are completely automatic.  It detects gps device
> automatically.

Even better!

> Should be doable.  I've already started on scripts to do this, but
> never found time to complete it.  Should we make a new directory in
> subversion?  osm-autologger, perhaps?

Please do.

> How should we do it?  Place the machine online and do hacking on it,
> or just share files using subversion?  I haven't got a gpsd-enabled
> gps these days, as my last one is broken, and the new Garmin one
> require a kernel module to function with gpsd (not present on my
> system yet).  But I do have a few draft scripts.

I can place the laptop on the net and give people root to it, but the
problem is testing unplugging the gps and plugging in the wifi for
people remotely working on it to test it works.

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/