GPS based data acquisition?

[Mike Kallies]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM,  <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
...
> There may be some advantages to using 'gpsd' as an intermediary, but in
> any case we can just decode the ASCII data.
>
> Our voltmeter software can be set to acquire data at any rate (over about
> 2 readings per second), so I picture patching that with a routine that
> captures the most recent GPS data. The same routine would write a
> voltmeter-data plus gps-data record to a file.
>
> Now I need to figure out how that data could be superimposed on a map...

I'm surprised that you can get a good reading of light pollution from
a car.  Do you park the car and cut the lights to take the readings?

Either way, it sounds like a cool project :-)

-Mike
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