Re: Announcing Perl module for parsing APRS packets

[Jeff Laughlin <jeff.laughlin@gmail.com>]

On 8/10/05, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes that is certainly a possibility... In fact I am working on that
right now! My next code release will be a complete FOSS findu.com
replacement, with a postgresql backend.

http://www.trackulator.com/

Expect to see it sometime in the next few weeks.