[GeoStL] Re: GPS and mapping at next Java Users Group meeting
- From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 18:29:34 -0500
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That sounds like real cool stuff. I know that the ham radio folks use
GPS and ham radios to display location info and display maps somehow. I
guess if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.
Glenn
Jack Konecker wrote:
> -
> I met a guy today at the mini-RR in Glencoe.
> We got to talking about GPS technology. He
> said he just started working for Agilis Systems.
> Its Chief Technical Officer is going to do a
> presentation at a local Java Users Group
> meeting next week. The keynote presentation
> is called: "How to capture GPS locations
> and display them on a mapping system."
> This talk will explain the fundamentals of GPS,
> and will step the audience through capturing
> GPS locations on a laptop with an attached
> GPS receiver and eventually displaying
> them on a mapping system. An intro will
> be provided to GPSD and the Google
> Mapping API, and several key GIS concepts
> will be discussed.
>
> They meet near Olive and highway 270 from
> 6:30pm - 8pm. More details can be found here:
> http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/
>
> I am not a Java programmer, but I am interested
> in the Google API (I'm sure that's what
> geocaching.com is now using). I currently
> work just a few miles from the meeting location.
> I think I will attend (it's free). It doesn't
> hurt to get out and mingle with some new people
> (although, they are still geeks, like me).
>
>
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