I would hope that the GPS data might be piped to a tracking app. Live tracking on a map is really nice as can be had with APRS trackers and some of the NMEA trackers.
That is a picture of a ballistic flight. The numbers next to the breadcrumb positions are the GPS altitude. One can see the path to the pad. The black line is the path I took to the only position I received.
I trusted it and by gosh dug the rocket out. Live tracking is really something if it can be pulled off. I hope to get some nominal flights in with my trackers. I don't have a Missileworks system though.
I believe I didn't get packets at altitude due to the ballistic nature of the flight.
If the data that comes across is standard NMEA strings, then technically they can be piped to another application to display on a map. The trick is
to show your position with the rockets position. In that example above my position (the blackline) is updated every 15 seconds whereas the rocket position
is in real time. If the position is received once a second, it's updated on the map once a second. The numbers are the GPS altitude.
One limit to the APRSIS32 program above is the Mapquest photo maptiles are no longer available. I stored my frequent flying sites locally so I can still use the photomap.
Even a standard line map is helpful, the more details the better so one can plan a recovery. Don't laugh, with another flight before I had a map available in hand, I discovered after the fact
I could have very easily driven to a recovery site onroad, taken a short easy walk and picked up the rocket. Instead, I went straight line, through 4 drainage ditches,
fell a few times while walking and got really tired out. Being able to plan the approach is a nice plus. I was lucky because another fellows rocket landed close to mine and I
actually gathered it up first before proceeding to mine. He had a GPS tracker in his and was smarter than me. He drove up and I bummed a ride back!
Kurt
