Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] MTK Development

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

Hi, and welcome.

If your enthusiasm fits well with our goals (conversion/translation to
other formats) we generally welcome contributions. If you have different
goals, such as turning GPSBabel into a configuration utility for your GPS
so you can change the logging frequency or whatever, you're welcome to
start with our base as long as our licensing goals are a match. We chose
GNU Public License which, in a nutshell, says that if you're benefitting
from our work that we shared with you, that you should share that work -
and work you do based on it - with others.

The code is readily available to you via GitHub:
https://github.com/gpsbabel/gpsbabel
Most of the MTK code is in
https://github.com/gpsbabel/gpsbabel/blob/master/mtk_logger.cc  - there's a
slightly strange fork of it in mtk_locus.cc

The code is admittedly and somewhat necessarily unsightly compared to some
of our modules like GPX or KML. Serial protocols are just hard and this
format has survived a rather brute force conversion to C++/Qt style and is
wildly inconsistent with most of our other modules. I'd welcome an
enthusiastic maintainer and the original authors have gone quiet.

You may also find
https://github.com/gpsbabel/gpsbabel/blob/master/README.contrib and
https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/Source.html - duly noting that
we're not immune from the programmer cliche: Some Documentation May Be Out
Of Date. In fact, in the act of referencing that page, I see several
"disable=" blocks that need to be dropped from the doc &/or code. We're a
16 year old project and like all 16 year olds, we can be a bit
inconsistent. :-)

If you byte off a task, join the gpsbabel-code mailing list if you have
questions or just want to mark something in progress so that others working
on the same thing that collaborate or coordinate. That's a mailing list for
developers to talk about bits and bytes over this list which is general
"how do I..." end-user help. OK, I know of no active work in that module
other than ongoing cleanup, but I like to think that someday we could have
two people working on the same thing at the same time.

RJL



On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Josh De La Rosa <jos...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One my favorite abilities of GPSBabel is being able to configure the
> logger via the command line. I've noticed the listed configuration commands
> for the MTK loggers
> <https://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_mtk.html> are limited
> compared to the Qstarz native tool or other loggers. Is there any way I can
> help develop the capabilities for MTK within GPSBabel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
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