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Originally Posted by rambo View Post
Well, you do 1/3 of the requirements already and adding accelometer data reading should not be much work (I don't know QT though). Being lazy here...

Some sort of application is needed to mux the GPS and accelometer data into single stream, it's not all that hard to do (if one goes for the very simplest one that just outputs to stdout and sending the data over network or other link would be handled by another small program [like netcat], toolbox philosophy...) but I have other projects that require my attention...

I was thinking more along the lines of using sqlite for the track log and exporting from there to other formats but for entirely selfish reasons...
Saying 1/3 of your requirements is already done in GPS Recorder is not a true statement...
This is a design issue : wanting to keep a GPS track from a day of hiking or an hour of motorcycle racing is absolutely not the same thing.
For hiking, you may want to keep position every 5 seconds or even minutes just to keep some waypoints here and there, but for racing, you may indeed want to record as much data as possible to have a consistent track data and even to gather some stats from it.
No matter what you say, this is just not the same purpose.

May I add that hardware and software of the Nokia's Nxx series was absolutely not designed for this 'realtime' purpose ?
If I strictly follow your state of mind, you may want higher GPS precision, so just don't rely on the TI GPS chip embedded into the N900 for example.
I also would not rely on the current software side because this is just not like reading a raw NMEA feed directly from the GPS chip and modifying an internal state while reading it...

I get your point about muxing needed data to get everything in a single stream.
This is indeed as easy as reading X,Y,Z data from a device and output it to a stream, but again : this is not the purpose of GPS Recorder !

I hope you will understand that all those realtime/telemetry features you are asking for are just out of topic.
Maybe this is because I was not clear enough in my description, or maybe this is because you did not take time to actually try the application I share before posting your 'requirements'.
 

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