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Stubb | 5 years ago

Is QGIS the go-to app for visualization of position data like this?

Can it send commands back to the app from which it's receiving position data? Things like pause/play and adjusting the time being displayed?

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Waterluvian|5 years ago

In this case I interface with ROS in Python so yes it could just by wiring the Python together from both ends.

QGIS is kind of the go-to app if you want to do serious geospatial data analysis. As for _visualization_, I'm not sure. There's probably better options for many domains. For ROS there's RVIZ, but the ROS community's spatial analytical tools are fairly immature.

chmod775|5 years ago

From what I gather it's pretty damn far from the typical use-case of a GIS tool but still a cool experiment. I have no idea how it could be useful like this either.

If you could however do some number crunching using historical data to display things like average air traffic density and routes, it might become useful.