[aprssig] GPS tracking how to get Lat/Lon's

Wed Oct 21 19:58:44 EDT 2009

Victor,

What you ask can be quite simple or rather complex depending on the specifics.  It will require some expense for specific hardware and/or software.

  As you have found, the (vast majority of) folks on this sig are licenced amateur radio operators and thereore work from that viewpoint.  

It would help if you would give a more complete explanation of what you want to do, that is, what the application is.  
Answer questions such as:
What is the purpose?
Who will be using this system and resulting information?
Its ther eother information you need to transfer (other than locations)?
What type of 'things' will you be tracking?
Will things be attended by people or unattended?
Over what area will this system be used?
What is the relative budget, or what do you already plan to use?
Etc.

-- 73, Steve, K9DCI

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--- On Mon, 10/19/09, Victor Santillan <newpop1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Victor Santillan <newpop1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] GPS tracking how to get Lat/Lon's
> To: earl.kd5xb at gmail.com, "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 11:16 AM
> Hello, I actually do not have a
> callsign, I am in TX
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/19/09, Earl Needham <earl.kd5xb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Earl Needham <earl.kd5xb at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [aprssig] GPS tracking how to get
> Lat/Lon's
> > To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
> > Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 9:11 AM
> > Just out of curiosity -- where are
> > you, and what's your Amateur Radio callsign?
> > 
> > Tnx
> > Earl
> > 
> > KD5XB -- Earl Needham
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs
> > Quoting from the Coast Guard: ZUT
> > Posted via Blackberry
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victor Santillan <newpop1 at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:04:28 
> > To: <aprssig at tapr.org>
> > Subject: [aprssig] GPS tracking how to get Lat/Lon's
> > 
> > Hello, I am new to APRS and have been reading quite a
> bit
> > about this over the past few days.  We have the need
> > for our vehicles to transmit their GPS location every
> 30-60
> > seconds.  However the missing link is that we need
> to
> > be able to receive those LAT / LON's coordinates to
> our
> > servers because we have developed complex mapping
> technology
> > that utilizes this data.  Right now we use
> commercial
> > communications to accomplish this task but for some
> small
> > operations this is not feasible and APRS may be able
> to
> > accomplish this with low cost in-vehicle GPS/radio
> > hardware.
> > 
> > I understand the process of transmitting the data from
> the
> > vehicle and what hardware is required to send the
> > data.  The part that I am missing and could not find
> an
> > exact description is how can we get that data routed
> to us
> > via the APRS network?  Are we required to have our
> own
> > receiver/base/APRS internet hub?  What is the best
> low
> > cost (reliable) solution/setup to actually receive the
> data
> > from the vehicles so we can get the raw data and
> store
> > it?  We do not want to use someone else website to
> look
> > up the GPS data, we just need to receive the data
> > streams/packets from all the vehicles in real time.
> > 
> > Thank You in advance.
> > 
> > 
> >       
> > 
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