Re: Announcing Perl module for parsing APRS packets

[Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>]

On 8/10/05, Curt, WE7U <archer@eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jeff Laughlin wrote:
> 
> > I've written a Perl module, Ham::APRS::Parser, for parsing APRS
> > packets, and I've released it under the GPL. You can find it here:
> > http://aprs.n1ywb.com/Ham-APRS-Parser-0.01/
> >
> > It takes the packet string, parses it, and returns a hash with the
> > data in a consistent and easy to process format. Currently it reliably
> > returns position, from and to calls, digi-path, symbols, and Mic-E
> > status reports from normal position reports, compressed position
> > reports, and Mic-E position reports. More work is needed to fully
> > implement the APRS protocol.
> 
> Have you considered tracking down the Perl code that Ian (the APRS
> spec editor) created which decodes packets?  That was quite
> complete and fully decoded everything similar to the "listen"
> command.

Could this be used to dump APRS data into a db like MySQL? I am interested
in doing something like that, but have to learn about db. I work with them up
to a certain point, time to learn the rest and getting APRS data into a db would
be a neat exersize.


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