[wellylug] GPS software

[David Antliff]

On 19/10/2007, Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:
> I'm largely off the net at present, working on a fisheries survey off Oman,
> (using a few of these tools, & with any luck, assisting the Oman Ministry of
> Fisheries to set up & use a few as well) so this msg is from a brief interlude
> on shore.

Sounds interesting.

Since writing my email I've been playing around with GPSMan, Viking,
pygarmin and a few others. I think the most promising for me is
pygarmin as it is a python module hence available for use in my own
scripts/programs. GPSMan doesn't look much initially but actually
seems pretty good once you learn a bit more about it - similar to
Garmin's MapSource in some respects. Viking was difficult to use (and
not really what I need either). gpsbabel looks very useful too.

Looks like there's a fair bit of support for GPS-related activities in
Linux, which is great.

Thanks for your reply,

-- 
David.