AVIATIONTOOLBOX: plot GPS log

I needed a break this morning so I whipped up a trivial little script
to create a sectional image from GPS data.
https://aviationtoolbox.org/Members/...ools/trip_plot

It just barely works but it takes NMEA $GPRMC sentences and generates
a JPEG. I noticed that there are people who like to document their
flights in this way so I thought such a tool might be useful.

Lots of improvements to make to it but I need to get back to other
things right now.

Enjoy.

--kyler

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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I needed a break this morning so I whipped up a trivial little script
to create a sectional image from GPS data.
https://aviationtoolbox.org/Members/...ools/trip_plot

It just barely works but it takes NMEA $GPRMC sentences and generates
a JPEG. I noticed that there are people who like to document their
flights in this way so I thought such a tool might be useful.

Lots of improvements to make to it but I need to get back to other
things right now.

Enjoy.


Kyler,

I think that's a great idea! My suggestion would be to use as input some
format other than NMEA sentences though. My favorite would be of course
oziexplorer ".plt" file format-- but any format to which gpsbabel can
translate would be preferable over the NMEA (to which gpsbabel can NOT
translate AFAIK).

Thanks for your efforts!

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas

"John Clonts" writes:

My suggestion would be to use as input some
format other than NMEA sentences though. My favorite would be of course
oziexplorer ".plt" file format--

Try it now.

--kyler

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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"John Clonts" writes:

My suggestion would be to use as input some
format other than NMEA sentences though. My favorite would be of course
oziexplorer ".plt" file format--

Try it now.

--kyler

Excellent, thanks!!

John

"John Clonts" writes:

Excellent, thanks!!

O.k., so real Ozi files work. I appreciate knowing that. (I tested with
an NMEA file that I'd converted to .plt. BTW, GPSbabel *can* convert back
to NMEA sentences.)

Are there other commonly used formats? I've only made direct captures from
a GPS receiver so I don't have any experience with the various flavors but
GPSbabel sure does support a bunch. I'm hesitant to just enable all of
them because it looks like some might require extra parameters to be
specified. I'd rather enable just those that people want to use.

I'll also take requests for enhancements. I have a few in mind already.

Thank you.

--kyler

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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"John Clonts" writes:

Excellent, thanks!!

O.k., so real Ozi files work. I appreciate knowing that. (I tested with
an NMEA file that I'd converted to .plt. BTW, GPSbabel *can* convert back
to NMEA sentences.)

It does? I've only used it through http://wayhoo.com/index/a/gpsbabel/. I
don't see NMEA in the options list-- am I missing something?


Are there other commonly used formats? I've only made direct captures
from
a GPS receiver so I don't have any experience with the various flavors but
GPSbabel sure does support a bunch. I'm hesitant to just enable all of
them because it looks like some might require extra parameters to be
specified. I'd rather enable just those that people want to use.

I'll also take requests for enhancements. I have a few in mind already.


Enhancement to track-plot: have an option to produce the sectional chunk
WITHOUT the actual track.

Other enhancement: produce a sectional chunk given two airport id's.


Thank you.

--kyler

Cheers!
John