Ansi now on weather underground

Moin
Since 5 minutes I push my local weather station data (which can be seen in near real time here) to the weather underground network. See the sticker on the right side or this cool one here:

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APRS igate running xastir

Moin

I just played a little bit with APRS igate on Linux. There are some igate software available on Linux but the most supported package (javAPRESSrvr) is not available today because of an error on Yahoogroups where the files are hosted.

Therefore I installed xastir from Sourceforge and connected the the local running instance with the APRS-IS network. Now DM1AS is visible on FINDU.

Nice side effect on this, the server generates an Google Maps page every 5 minutes with APRS stations around my home. Maybe tomorrow I connect my radio to the igate and there will be more local stations available.

So far you can see the map here:http://tinyurl.com/nacc5k

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New bibliothek stuttgart

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Bikemap Routes on Garmin GPS

Moin

I love Peters Bikemap.net page. Using this service to plan all my bike tours. Unfortunately my Garmin (GPSmap 60) does not understand the gpx file from Bikemap export. I wrote this little script to modify and split the route into smaller routes. GPSmap 60 only handle 250 points per route. Therefore the script splits the route into smaller pieces, renames the note names into “rtept” resp. “rte” and uploads the route via USB to the connected garmin.

What you need to run this script are gpsbabel and the unix commands: sed, split,cut and head .

Here it is, as usually no guarantee.

#!/bin/bash
filename=$1

gpsbabel -i gpx -f ${filename} -o csv -F out.csv
split -l 200 out.csv splits
rm out.csv

for i in `ls splits*`
do
 gpsbabel -i csv -f ${i} -o gpx -F ${i}.gpx
 sed 's/wpt/rtept/' ${i}.gpx > out
 rm ${i}.gpx
 mv out ${i}.gpx
 rm ${i}

 linenumber=`wc -l ${i}.gpx | cut -d " " -f 1`
 let linenumber-=1

 sed -n 10,${linenumber}p ${i}.gpx >a.gpx

 rm ${i}.gpx

 cat ${filename} | head -n 9  >${i}.gpx
 echo "<rte>"                >>${i}.gpx
 cat a.gpx                   >>${i}.gpx
 echo "</rte>"               >>${i}.gpx
 echo "</gpx>"               >>${i}.gpx
 rm a.gpx

 sudo gpsbabel -r -i gpx -f ${i}.gpx -o garmin -F usb:0
 rm ${i}.gpx
done

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LeChuck Me… Monkey Island is back yeahhhhh

Moin

Just found on Slashdot the article on the new Monkey Island. Its points to rockpapershutgun. Go and read on your own or just watch this cool movie with preview and background information and hey also great impressions on the new Monkey Island. Cant wait to have it:

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