Plot the boat on Google Maps

Preparing a way to plot the boat's position from the email, on the blog.
Here is a sneak preview of what can be expected...

SailFax, utility for SkedFile.txt

Almost done with SailFax. See a preview here.
Will soon be available for download.

More Software to come

Working on several applications around AirMail & GetFax.
The first one is a Graphical User Interface for SkedFile.txt, the one that is used by the automatic feature of GetMail.
The second is a viewer that will be able to stack the faxes received by GetFax, and a chart, on which you can display your position, way points, grib files, etc.
In other words, it gives the possibility to override a fax, with accurate geographical data, like position. You know in Lat and Long where you are on the fax.

New software available

New software is available on Don Pedro's software page.
It contains the GeomUtil (spheric calculation utilities), NMEAParser, NMEAViewer, NMEAHTTPLogger, ChartComponents, and GRIBViewer.

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radio email processed by SailMail
for information see:

http://www.sailmail.com

Google Map APIs, that is cool stuff!

I had the opportunity to play a bit with the Google Map API, and it turned out to be pretty cool; we might be able to use and reuse it for our big trip.


As an example, I rendered our track during the Pacific Cup 2006...


You can even simulate some animations. The trick being not to reload the chart every time you want it to move... Play with the links on the right of the document linked above, and see for yourself.

Feeding the blog from email

This is a test, without any extra software, allowing us to send images to the blog via SailMail. It's a base64 encoded image, nicely rendered by good browsers, and not by Internet Explorer...
The utility I use is available here.

On line!

The BLOG has been created, in prevision of the trip.
This will be possible to post entries from the boat, through email.