The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Geo::GPS::Data
DSLIP: cdpOp
description: GPS-aquired geographic data management
userid: NFMNUNES (Nuno Filipe Monteiro Nunes)
chapterid: 23 (Miscellaneous_Modules)
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rationale:
First off a description of the package and its goal: This package
(being prepared for upload to CPAN in a couple of weeks or so) will
be useful for managing the geographic data collected with and being
fed to a GPS unit. It does not provide any interface to a physical
GPS unit, it assumes you can get the data and feed it to the module
and vice-versa. It also is (as far as I could think of it) GPS-brand
and -model agnostic. If it is not I *will* change it to be so! :)
The package uses an object-oriented approach to the creation and
manipulation of waypoint objects and waypoint collections (general
collections, track logs and routes). The storage of these items is
implemented in separate modules so that it will be possible (and
hopefully easy) to write new modules to support different storage
mechanisms. Initially I will provide an mysql storage module.
Concerning the namespace: I am aware of two namespaces concerning
GPS-related stuff: GPS: The top-level name used, so far, to support
device-specific packages (GPS::Garmin and GPS::Lowrance); Geo::GPS:
This namespace was discussed previously but I don't think it is
being used right now by any package.
I am somewhat divided about which namespace to choose (it could be
either GPS::Data or Geo::GPS::Data with helper modules bellow any of
these) but I tend to go with Geo::GPS::Data because while the
package will provide a way to deal with data gathered from and used
by a GPS unit but it's object of interest is the geographic data
more than the GPS itself.
enteredby: NFMNUNES (Nuno Filipe Monteiro Nunes)
enteredon: Thu Mar 20 19:52:16 2003 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Geo::GPS::
::Data cdpOp GPS-aquired geographic data management NFMNUNES
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