[Xastir] 'streaming' objects

[William McKeehan]

You may take a look at the perl that I wrote...it may be of some use to you.

http://mckeehan.homeip.net/amateurradio/APRS/aprstracker.htm

On Thu, January 27, 2005 4:51 pm, Greg Jurrens said:
> Good Day Xastir-ers:
>
> I've been given a challenge for this year's Freescale (Formerly Motorola)
> Marathon:  I need to be able to accept lat/lon/speed information from 5-10
> non-APRS tracking devices and integrate them into the "BIG BOARD" map we show
> in the VIP tent.  I normally use Xastir to iGATE all the various bus/comm. and
> lead vehicle channels so I'd like to be able to just capture this stream and
> shoot it to the TAMU APRS-IS just like the other data.  That way, we can see
> it in the VIP tent plus at all the bus stops, start/finish line, and the comm.
> command center.
>
> I'm guessing this would be similar to the way the WXSERV puts out Hurricane or
> Tornado tracks.  The folks providing the data claim they can format their
> output so I'm sure I can make it look like APRS POSITS.  I just need to figure
> out a way to get the data from their server to both the TAMU APRS-IS and back
> to Austin so we can spit them out over RF.  Once into the APRS-IS system, I
> can handle the iNET >> RF side already.
>
> Anyone have any nifty PERL or JAVA scripts laying around for formatting and/or
> pushing these psuedo-POSITS to an APRS-IS server?  Any easier way to do this?
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> 73,
>
> --
> Greg Jurrens - WD0ACD
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