Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi for a powered paraglider? A nd: Any users near Berlin?

[marcus.wolschon]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:28:16 +0200, Maik Höpfel <address@hidden>
wrote:
> 1) So you don't think the recommended u-blox GPS module is a good fit?
> What would you recommend? Luckily, money is not of primary concern.

It is a good fit for it's job which is to provide a location to complement
the attitude measured via IR.
What you talked about was to skip the IR-sensor and measure
attitude via location-changes.

> 2) That's what I was afraid of. So it seems like one would need to
> implement auto-tuning capabilities? I'm naive, I'd say that's doable,
> right? Has anyone tried that yet?

I'd say you simply need the sensors and hand-tuning.
You can't automatically tune a factor between action and response
without meassuring the response. ;) 

> 3) Nice to hear that you're involved in OSM. I wonder why I can't
> download OSM tiles instead of the (sometimes broken) Google Maps tiles
> yet :) I guess that's probably on a to-do list somewhere.

I'm just too busy with Traveling Salesman on OSM and with jGnucashLib
to bother about patching the GCS for OSM-Tiles yet. ;)


Marcus