chris-metcalf's comments

The combination of both a ham and a GMRS license is actually pretty nice.

I got my General class license for ham a couple of years ago, and it's a fun hobby that does lend itself to disaster preparedness. My sub-$1000, battery-powered HF setup easily allows me to reach out and make contact across most of North America, and I frequently make contacts in Japan, South Korea, and eastern Russia. And with my cheap Baofeng and AnyTone radios I can tap into the awesome regional repeater network we have here in the Puget Sound.

However, with those radios I can only talk with other hams. In contrast, my $75 for 10 years GRMS license allows my entire family (the rest of which are not licensed hams) to talk on GRMS channels at up to 50 watts, instead of the 2 watt max you have with FRS. And here in Seattle we get access to some awesome GMRS repeaters, so we can basically communicate with each other anywhere across the city.

Yup, I've got an ActiSense NGT-1 that outputs NMEA 2000 PGNs on USB Serial that I can decode with CanBoat: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/canboat-ansible

You can tell by the age of the repo that I got a bit distracted... the distraction just turned two years old.

Have you by any chance documented how you did this, or could you link me to where you learned how to set this up? This is actually one of the projects I puttered on for a long time with one of my RPis (NMEA-2000 to SignalK) but abandoned because I had too many moving parts.

We worked with a team from across NASA to build it, including the Ames Research Center and other groups.

At Socrata we work with all levels of governments, including cities, states, federal agencies, and even international governments around the world: http://www.socrata.com/customer-stories/

Chris Metcalf here, Developer Evangelist from Socrata (http://dev.socrata.com), the company that provides the platform that hosts the catalog and some of the open data APIs they're providing. I'm glad to answer whatever questions I can here.