{"id":74,"date":"2008-03-31T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danplanet.com\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:18:05","slug":"d-rats-gets-map-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/d-rats-gets-map-support\/","title":{"rendered":"D-RATS gets map support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I released <a href=\"http:\/\/d-rats.danplanet.com\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/d-rats.danplanet.com\">D-RATS<\/a>  0.1.11 with preliminary GPS support.&nbsp; This meant parsing the NMEA GPS strings that are broadcasted by ICOM radios, calculating the distance and direction from current, as well as a temporary way to plot known stations on a Google Maps map.&nbsp; This was a stunning visualization of the data being sent across, but it only works in the presence of a (good) internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve been working to integrate a map viewer that can do most of what the fantastic Google Maps application can do, but with local data fetched from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\">OpenStreetMap.org<\/a>.&nbsp; The result is 0.1.12 with integrated station mapping capabilities that can be operated completely offline:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/images\/stories\/dan\/drats_map_small.png\" mce_src=\"http:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/images\/stories\/dan\/drats_map_small.png\" alt=\"D-RATS map\" height=\"547\" width=\"485\"><\/div>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t aware of the OSM project until I had a need for access to free map data without the Google terms of service (which only allow the data to be used by free and public web sites).&nbsp; I was surprised by how well the OSM stuff worked and applaud the group for their efforts.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be offering up my CPU cycles to help render map tiles soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I released D-RATS 0.1.11 with preliminary GPS support.&nbsp; This meant parsing the NMEA GPS strings that are broadcasted by ICOM radios, calculating the distance and direction from current, as well as a temporary way to plot known stations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/d-rats-gets-map-support\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,76],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-d-rats","tag-osm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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