Subject: Re: GPS mapping for netbsd.
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/03/2002 17:06:03
Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> wrote:
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> Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:
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> > Well, I have a 12 channel parallel receiver that's about 3 times the
> > size of my Jornada. I'm gonna bolt it into the roll-cage of my truck
> > and plug my jornada into one of it's serial ports (it has 2, one that
> > can be used for differential input). Then I want to be able to map
> > my current position onto a topo map that I've got for the area that
> > I'm planning to go to offroad.
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> So, we're doing about the same sort of thing.
>
> What format is the topo map in? I've not found many that were
> detailed enough AND free AND had a format that could be parsed without
> serious NDAs.
I haven't fully investigated that. The one's I've been able to
find on the gc.ca sites are .gif which is probably non-useful.