On 02/08/2012 13:37, Roy Barkas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Tomalak
Geret'kal <address@hidden>
wrote:
On
02/08/2012 06:14, Roy Barkas wrote:
I currently use gpsdecode for decoding GPS NMEA/AIS messages
received. I load a copy of gpsdecode into a ramdisk and run
it as an exec from PHP capturing JSON output.
This works fine and I don't currently have any bandwidth
issues, but it strikes me as clunky, potentially unreliable
and uber-oldschool (this is how I might have done this kind
of thing 30 years ago).
Can I use gpsd in more or less the same way - i.e. feed it
gps or AIS sentences via a socket and receive json back?
Thanks
RB
What problems do you foresee with your current approach, other
than that you can picture yourself having used it thirty years
ago? Or is it just that?
Seems like the appropriate tool for the job to me. Just
because something was the right way to do it X years ago
(where X > Y) doesn't automatically mean it can no longer
be so today.
If what I'm doing is a correct approach
using the tools available then I'll stick with it. I've just been
concerned that I was applying ancient thinking to a modern
problem.
Nice to know that the way I might have done something running RSX
on a PDP-11/70 still makes sense :-)
Having said all that, is it practical to send messages via a
socket to gpsd and have it return decoded JSON?
Roy
Roy
Without being more familiar with precisely what you're doing, I
couldn't say for certain. But alarm bells don't scream out at me
here. It feels as if you're just searching for a problem.
Tom
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