[udig-devel] GPS Feature Import Plugin

[Dan Eslinger]

Andy / Cory -

Of course I'm interested in help! The plugin is currently part of the 
community SVN under http://svn.geotools.org/udig/community/dan

Where I'd like to take the plugin:

    - Support more data formats (ie Garmin, Magellan, Tom Tom?)
    - For file import, add preview capability for attributes (similar to 
excel Data to Columns type of idea)
    - Re-package the plug-in to read directly from a serial port/usb to 
populate the map layer in real-time with the position (vis a vis a tracking 
layer)
    - Advertise new data features upon receving a new
    - Fix the issue of exporting to a shape file (most useful for importing 
data files), it looks like a trivial problem but i've got o upgrade my 
eclipse to the latest

And any other ideas that you've got are welcome!

> Andy Czerwonka wrote:
>I'm very interested in this work.  Are you interested in any type of
>collaboration on it?
>
>"Dan Eslinger" <eslinger at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>...the plug-in I have developed is able to read GPS NMEA sentences and
>>return latitude and longitude ordinate pairs for access and display.
>>...
>>
>>

This is open source :)  Collaboration is what it is all about!  The
first cut of the plug-in is completed (the google summer of code is done
now).

Dan -- what is your schedule looking like and what are you scheming up
for the future of your plugin?  With a little QA we can add it to the
update site for uDig sometime after the uDig 1.1.0 release (next month).

Cheers,
Cory.