[aprssig] APRS Comment/Status Text Guidelines

[Robert Bruninga]

>> But all we need is someone to write an 
>> on-line parser for the Maryland Traffic 
>> data web page, and then turn around and send
>> the object packets out the serial port 
>> for an attached TNC,

> I got the basics sorted out:
> http://www.innismir.net/etc/parsemdtraffic.pl.txt
> Grabs the CHART page, and prints out 
> any sensor that is 30MPH or below.
> The trivial part now is to massage the data 
> into an APRS ready format.  What I can't do, 
> or rather don't feel qualified to do, is to 
> translate the sensor names into lat/long. 

If CHART wont give us the lat/long, the easy way is to just look
at the CHART map and look at a GOOGLE map and move the cursor to
where it looks and just read off the coordinates..  Maybe?

> from there it's just munging the variables 
> into an APRS string, at which point I can write it 
> to a file, print it to STDOUT, or do whatever 
> you want with it.

Great!

 Bob

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 			~Ben
> 
> - --
> Ben Jackson - N1WBV - New Bedford, MA
> bbj <at> innismir.net - http://www.innismir.net/
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