Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: Mapserver debian package do not build

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

> Oh, I am already involved in OpenStreetmap.org, so I have a good idea
> on what I will use it for.  I plan to visualize GPS tracks and roads
> drawn based on GPS tracks on a landsat image fetched from NASA. :)


FWIW, my m.realtime_gps module for GRASS already does this; if you don't
need realtime the GRASS 5.7+ v.in.garmin module works much better for
downloading tracks, etc.. gpsbabel + some minor shell scripting should
work well too.


>> I'm wondering if anybody of the grass-community has used Grass for
>> Vehicle-Navigation or Routing till now?
> 
> 
> I've done something for real-time shipboard positioning, it would work
> pretty well for aerial as well after adjustments for speed. It would
> need to be reworked by someone to be used for real-time land-vehicle
> use on a road network, using GRASS 5.7's v.net.path et al. That would
> include both updating it to work with 5.7 vectors and intergrating
> v.net.*.
> 
> "NOT FOR NAVIGATION, USE AT OWN RISK"
> (It's a hack, but it works fairly well)
> 
> 
> Screenshots:
> http://bambi.otago.ac.nz/hamish/grass/realtime_gps_4.png
> http://bambi.otago.ac.nz/hamish/grass/realtime_gps5.png
> http://bambi.otago.ac.nz/hamish/grass/realtime_gps6.png
> 
> You can underlay GIS layers & do real-time display of say soil type
> or whatever at current postion.. (broken lines are from previous
> tracks)
> 
> see
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/3148
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/3125
> 
> slightly older version:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/2361
> 
> 
> To do non-realtime vehicle routing over road networks, use GRASS 5.7
> and d.path, v.net.*
> 
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass51/tutorial/network.html
> http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass51/manuals/html57_user/vector.html
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
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