[Freegis-list] GPS data processing

[Nils Faerber]

Am Di, den 08.06.2004 schrieb Bernhard Reiter um 12:29:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:36:34PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:00:51PM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > > Am Mo, den 07.06.2004 schrieb Bernhard Reiter um 18:56:
[...]
> > > Interestingly for example GRASS has a digitizer option for some misc
> > > graphics tablets but AFAIK no GPS data import. And I was also not able
> > > to find any tool to convert GPS track data of any form into something
> > > that some package like GRASS would be able to postprocess.
> > There once was s.in.gps, but I did not look up what happend to it.
> 
> You could try v.in.garmin.sh for GRASS 5.3.
> Check: http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/v.in.garmin.sh.html

Ah, cool, I'll try to check that out ASAIT (as soon as I have time :)

> Also Hamish seems to have development a real-time tracking:
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2003-November/010780.html
> (Further questions on that should better go to the GRASS lists. :) )

:)

> On my wishlist would be a plugin for Thuban to operate gpsbabel.

Oh yes, that would be perfect!
I am definitely a newbie to GIS processing and I have already stated my
point of interest: Generate maps from GPS data. How this is deon is in
general quite open. Thuban seems to me very interesting sind it can
handle annotations what GRASS IMHO can not.
If there would be a way to generate shape files for Thuban from GPS data
that could be edited (split, merged and annotated) within Thuban, then
Thuban would be the application of choice for my work!

Sadly I am no Python programmer at all so your Python shapelib extension
is no use for me. But the GPS-Babel approach seems promising!

If I understand you correctly if gpsbabel would have an output module
for shapefiles, which could itself be implemented by using shapelib,
then those shapes could be imported and managed/edited by Thuban?

> Bernhard
CU
  nils faerber

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