Michaels Blog

Here’s a modified Version, of the rgm3800py script. It let’s you download tracks and configure your Royaltek RGM-3800. So far I’ve tested it only under Linux but it should work on Windows and Mac OS too.

• Here’s whats changed so far:
• Added an additional “get ” command, which stores the received NMEA records in the current directory. And automaticly names the file after the according date. In default mode* it groups the records in one file per day.
• The date function has been “fixed”, well actually it created a valid timestamp in some way (I think something tactical), but it wasn’t really useable, so it’s now yyyy-mm-dd (HH:MM:SS), pretty, ain’t it?
• For all switches (see below) you can now set default values at the beginning of the script. Also the default device is set to /dev/ttyUSB0 (set this according to your configuration), it saves you to type that -d every time

There’ve been some switches added:

• -s –separate-tracks Creates a new file for every track. Naming scheme is: yyyy-mm-dd_counter.nmea

• -z:int –zeros=int which sets the number of leading zeros (i.e. if you, for some reason have more than 100 tracks of one single day you might want to set -z:3 so you’ll get 0001 and even 0333 is sorted correctly

• -c:int –counter-offset=int Imaging this: You just downloaded all tracks from your device (including 7 tracks you created today) and delete your device. What happens? A fellow mapper comes by and what the heck, you go out and tagg a round, but now the script would create a file yyyy-mm-dd_0.nmea, which already exists, since we’ve downloaded it earlier, counter offset to the rescue! With -c:8 you’ll get a file named yyyy-mm-dd_8.mnea and will go on with yyyy-mm-dd_9.nmea … (the next date will start with a counter of 0 again )

Usage examples:

./rgm -s -z 3 get 17-  (will get all tracks starting from 17 and store them in individual files with the naming scheme date_000x.nmea )

Note: You must place the switches before the actual command (get, track, etc. )!

Things still left to do:

• A function to erease the device
• Geoid correction
• GPX output
• Check if file already exists
• Make it possible to pass a directory as option

UPDATE:

HAHA! You wouldn’t believe it, just the day I finished with the script the original author released an update (to be percicse 2 hours later), jumping from rev. 14 to rev 19 (aaaah, whyyy?! And we thought he isn’t working on it anymore …), well quick changelog: Added GPX output (trackx) and the possibility to erease the memory

UPDATE²:

The modifications of rev14 are now adapted to the script of rev19.

UPDATE (March 15, 200):

It’s now also possible to directly download/write files in GPX format with the ‘getx’ command, the other switches also apply to this one (separate/single files, leading zeros, offset counter … ). You’ll notice that a single gpx file, that consists of several tracks, will have several tracks inside, which can be edited manually (i.e. with viking)

You can get the modified version here: http://www.michael-skiba.de/rgm.txt (You might want to rename it to rgm.py or something like that)

The original version can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/rgm3800py/

Because of all the great apps from KDE 3 that are being ported and improved for KDE 4.

One of them is digiKam, THE photo management program for your pictures.

I don’t want to fiddle with all the details (since it isn’t even released yet), but give you a few impressions of the new program, which is completely built on the new KDE/QT 4-Framework.

(weiterlesen…)

Nachdems auf der Homepage in letzter Zeit doch eher ruhig war und mir auch nichts vernünftiges eingefallen ist, widme ich mich wieder meinem blog…

In zwischenzeit werde ich wohl auch eine neue Kategorie hinzufügen müssen: OpenStreetMap

Eine freie Weltkarte (wer hätte das gedacht?! Aber dazu gibt’s schon genug Berichte im Netz )

Wichtig ist, das im Großraum Offenburg noch einige Dinge zu tun wären, wer also ebenfalls in der Region am Mappen ist, darf mir gerne ne Nachricht hinterlassen.

Und wo wir’s grade von OSM haben: Digikam (wohl das Fotoverwaltungstool schlechthin - jetzt auch für Windows) bereitet das 0.10.0 release für KDE 4 vor. Mit dabei eine Marble(Der digitale Globus ) integration - dieses kann u.A. OSM als Layer benutzen, dies ist zwar noch nicht integriert, aber abaecker arbeitet gerade an einem Patch, der doch recht vielversprechend aussieht.  :)

Und last but not least: Heute kommt openSUSE 11.1 raus - Herzlichen Glückwunsch.

Auf Seiten der deutschen Übersetzung gibt es einige “Aktualisierungen” (:P), die nicht zuletzt auch auf Jannik zurück zu führen sind, der bereits aktiver KDE-Übersetzer ist und ein waches Auge auf unsere Übersetzungen hat. Trotzdem sind wir noch immer viel zu wenig (4 Stk.) und haben mit wachsweichen Stringfreezes zu kämpfen, aber es wird weitergehen. (Auch wenn es Leute gibt, die fest der Gegenteiligen überzeugung gibt.)

Btw. Flashlight in den deutschen Boxen?!