Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:51:06 +0100 From: Miguel Filgueiras <mig@ncc.up.pt> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: carmel_ny <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, mig@ncc.up.pt, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Subject: Re: TomTom GPS Message-ID: <20091013105106.2b55d6fa@ncc.up.pt> In-Reply-To: <200910130837.n9D8bGij074158@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <20091012190354.GC1340@albert.catwhisker.org> <200910130837.n9D8bGij074158@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi Julian and David, > I could a co-operate with Miguel F on debug probes etc if he wants > ( though I dont want to wipe & destroy my GPS, theyre too useful :-) > > Cheers, > Julian I can assure you that I don't know of any GPS destroyed by GPSMan since its first version back in 1998! At present GPSMan has support for Garmin, Lowrance and also Magellan receivers. In order to add support for Tom-Toms the first thing we need is a publicly available description of its communication protocol. Is there one? Where? After that we must see if it is feasible to implement support for it. By "we" I mean you and I and any other person willing to help and having some knowledge of Tcl or any scripting language. Feasibility here from my point of view is less in technical terms and more in relation to the small amount of time I can alocate to this. I am currently working on other aspects of GPSMan that are well behind schedule because I cannot find people to help with the implementation... It may happen that the Tom-Tom protocol is similar to one of those already implemented what will decrease the amount of time needed. In sum, I'm interested in this, I'll be very glad to collaborate but I cannot promise much in terms of time. Cheers, Miguel
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