[Pkg-grass-general] GPS + GIS software for Debian
[see also the DebianGis wiki:
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
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Paolo Cavallini:
> > Just to start, I set up a short list of the GIS packages I consider
> > important for Debian:
> >
> > - -Grass 5.7 (tobe decided: which cvs snapshot?)
> > - -Mapserver
> > - -PostGIS
> > - -QGIS (we're stuck at 0.3 in Testing, whereas 0.5 should be very
> > close by)
> >
> > Of course, gdal and qgis should have support for grass (depends on).
> >
> > Do I forget something?
Francesco P. Lovergine:
>
> There is a very long list of tools to review here:
> http://freegis.org/
>
> I'd add at least GPS oriented tools which are missing completely.
> Some of those software are java-dependent so could have a few
> issue for license (being Java a non DFSG sw), anyway.
Paolo Cavallini responded:
> > As for GPS, we already have:
> >
> > gpsdrive - Car navigation system
> > gpsman - A GPS manager
> > gpsmanshp - A Tcl interface to shapelib
> > gpstrans - communicate with a Garmin Global Positioning System
> > receiver
"gpsd" has recently had a major overhaul and should be a candidate for a
Debian package. From the list above gpsdrive uses it, as does my
GRASS 5.3 Realtime-GIS extension (search the GRASS mailing lists for
info). Gpsd is good and people should standardize around it.
gpsd Homepage: http://gpsd.berlios.de/
Hamish
ps - gpstrans should be on the GRASS pacakge's suggested list as it is
required for the s.in.garmin.sh and v.in.garmin.sh modules.
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