Bug#288299: RFP: gps3d -- Visualize GPS status using an OpenGL projection of the globe

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : gps3d
  Version         : 1.20
  Upstream Author : Emmanuel Mogenet <mgix@mgix.com>
* URL             : http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/
* License         : BSD-like
  Description     : Visualize GPS status using an 3D projection of the globe

gps3d is a set of utilities that lets you manipulate your GPS from
your Linux/Win32 box, and visualize the output in 3D.

If you do not own a GPS device, you can still use gps3d to play
interactively with a 3D texture mapped model of earth.

This is the license text:

  This code is 100% free.
  Not half-baked free as in the GPL.
  Free as in free: do whatever you want with it.

I'm not sure if I want to maintain this package myself, as I already
got quite a few packages already.  I got a set of packages available
at <URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/gps3d/>.  The upstream
source need some work before the package is ready to go into debian.
The map download feature is broken, and my patches to port it to use
the gpsd server in Debian need more work.  It would also be nice to
teach it how to load the base map from PNG or JPEG, instead of a 3 MiB
PNM file, to reduce the package size.

The really nice feature in this package compared to the other GPS
viewers is the 3D globe model and the plotting of satellite tracks.
Screenshots are available on the project home page.