Subject: Re: GPS mapping for netbsd.
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/03/2002 15:34:43
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Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:

> 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.

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.

- --Michael
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