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

[Victor Santillan]

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
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> 
> -----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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