Category Archives: Software

What GPS / GPX visualisation software to use in Linux

Posted on 2011-07-27 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

OK, so you’ve chosen a GPS, based on the last post and you’ve taken a walk with it and are itching to look at what you’ve done. There are so many sites now offering advice, mostly for Windoze of course … Continue reading →

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What GPS to use

Posted on 2011-07-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

This is a follow up to this post ages ago outlining the technical aspects of our GPS data collection for those that might want to do something similar. What GPS? As mentioned in that earlier article, Sophia and I now … Continue reading →

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Capture Batch Script updated

Posted on 2011-05-10 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Looking back the other day at this post, I remembered that it had somehow stopped working on the eeepc. I suspected this had something to do with vlc and was always bothered anyway about using such a big, fully-featured programme … Continue reading →

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Python script that reads GPS log files and sends values via OSC

Posted on 2011-04-21 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

This is the companion post to the one below, (Python script that sends live GPS values over OSC). It is for people who don’t have a GPS to attach but want to experiment with the kind of values you get … Continue reading →

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Compile New GPSBabel from source

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A new version of GPSBabel – version 1.4.2 came out but it’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories and there are no binaries on the GPSBabel site. I’m here to tell you that installing from the source worked pretty painlessly … Continue reading →

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