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From: Rob Norris <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada utility for Google Earth, NASA World Wind
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:11:35 +0100
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On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:27:32 -0500, "Marc A. Criley"
<mcNOSPAM@mckae.com> wrote:

>tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>> I've posted at
>> home.comcast.net/~tommoran4/scout091.zip
>> a zip file with readme.txt, Zoo.spc, and Scout.exe
>> I'll add the Ada source code after a bit of cleanup.
>> 
>Enhancement request!!   :-)
>
>First off, thanks for a fine program, for mapping and flyover geeks like 
>me this is a big help.
>
>Now, since of course there's no widespread standardization amongst 
>consumer-oriented lat/long coordinate representations, Garmin's 
>MapSource uses yet a different format.

Another enhancement request.

Support GPX format.

I think most are standardizing on XML scheme of GPX:

http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp

Garmin MapSource (6.5 above supports GPX for example).

For an opensource implementation (C program I think) see somwhere in:

http://www.gpsbabel.org

I haven't seen GPX in Ada. Here's the chance :)

It's a pity I use Linux, maybe I'll have to fire up the Windows
partition to try Google Earth & maybe this scout program if someone
gets it to use GPX (could be me if the source becomes available).