Re: [udig-devel] SampleProject.udig overwritten on opening

[James Macgill <jmacgill@xxxxxxx>]

At 01:10 PM 1/3/2005, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> On 3-Jan-05, at 1:12 AM, Tony Bazeley wrote:
> > While I think I get the broad concepts , could someone advise me whether 
> > it will be possible to download/upload data from/to my Garmin etrex in 
> > the near future, and if this is not likely to be possible suggest an 
> > alternative open source application or work around in the interim.
>
> Tony,
> GPS handling really seems to be a weak point in OSS spatial applications 
> right now.  I do not know why, but I would be willing to hazard a guess 
> that not enough OSS developers own GPS units!

Too true.

However, for some hope see some notes on adding a GPS DataStore 
implementaiton to GeoTools at:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-104

Should not be too hard to do, especially for someone with a GPS to test 
against!

James