GPS waypoint not taker?
 

Hello all,

When out scouting for new photo shoots, sometimes I just want to make down coordinates and notes of where I am...

Is there such an app for my N810, the built-in GPS and Keyboard should be prefect for such an endever...

Any know of one?

Thanks!

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

Not automagically just yet but it easy enough to do manually when you go to Control Panel and click on "GPS Location" then "location".

You can then click on the "copy location" button which will copy your coordinates to the tablets clipboard. Now open "Notes", hit paste, then add whatever additional info you want. :)

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

You could also use http://gps-saver.garage.maemo.org/ to save GPS data to a file for later processing.

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

Although the gpscamera app http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/gps-camera/ has some devel left to be done or translation to figure it out it is supposed to tag photos with the current GPS data. Otherwise the suggested copy/paste of location data works just fine too.

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

I'm working on a logging GPSD. Right now an experimental version is at http://www.zdez.org/minigpsd_0.25_armel.deb, but you must edit the /etc/minigpsd.conf by hand. The source with a few more notes is at http://www.zdez.org/minigpsd_0.25.tar.gz and I use it with my motorcycle to grab engine and other data.

It saves kmz files to the memory card (in minigpsd/YYMMDDHHMM directories, one per startup). They have KML timestamps so you can view the position. It also has bluetooth to internal failover and reconnect, so I can ride and capture at 10Hz, get off and walk around a fair or flea market capturing from the internal gps, then when I'm near the cycle again I reconnect. I've written it to use as little CPU as possible (<5% @ 10Hz + cycle data) and can go over 6 hours and still have 1/2 my battery left. If I don't plug it into a charger.

Right now I use osso-statusbar-cpu to start it and kill it. Further annotation (perhaps the internal temp and ambient light? iwlist scan as a cheap kismet? Add notes or pix?) will have to wait for a statusbar control app.

When I have something more integrated (I just got real .deb builds working) I will post a more prominent announcement.

Example post processed KMZ: http://www.zdez.org/Telem-0703.kmz and I've found it helpful to add http://www.zdez.org/BlankEarth.kmz for visibility.

The raw files contain all the NMEA GPS sentences (and J1850 traffic) as XML comments in the files. They show up as red "fences" with height proportional to speed subject to the time slider (if you don't see anything it may be because the time slider is narrowed down to one point).

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

One other useful aside - under Diablo, if you create a "navicore-logs" directory on your external card, it will save all the NMEA sentence output into timestamped files.

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

Oops - I just uploaded the correct deb and source files to www.zdez.org, at 8pm CDT, so if you tried an earlier copy it probably won't have the files.

Re: GPS waypoint not taker?
 

More fixes of silly errors, http://www.zdez.org/minigpsd_0.25a_armel.deb http://www.zdez.org/minigpsd_0.25a.tar.gz