and dumping it or printing it via a template.
zcweather - Fetches the weather for the specified location.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ZConf-Weather
PR: ports/139170
Submitted by: Zane C, Bowers <vvelox at vvelox.net>
not know or do not trust then is for you. Input an image and we'll give you
back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling
inside the field of view.Astrometry.net
We have built this astrometric calibration service to create correct,
standards-compliant astrometric meta-data for every useful astronomical image
ever taken, past and future, in any state of archival disarray. We hope this
will help organize, annotate and make searchable all the world's astronomical
information.
WWW: http://www.astrometry.net/
PR: 136594
Submitted by: Dereckson <dereckson@gmail.com>
implements the "World Coordinate System" (WCS) convention in FITS (Flexible
Image Transport System). It also includes a PGPLOT-based routine, PGSBOX,
for drawing general curvilinear coordinate graticules and a number of
utility programs." - from README file.
WWW: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/index.html
PR: 136776
Submitted by: Tony Maher <tonym@optusnet.com.au>
data from GPS systems. Basically it's a tool to let you play with
your GPS data after you get home from your trip.
It can load data from arbitrary text-based formats (for example,
any tab-separated or comma-separated file) or Xml, or directly from
a GPS receiver. It can display the data (as map view using openstreetmap
images and as altitude profile), edit this data (for example delete
points and ranges, sort waypoints, compress tracks), and save the
data (in various text-based formats). It can also export data as a
Gpx file, or as Kml/Kmz for import into Google Earth, or send it
to a GPS receiver.
WWW: http://activityworkshop.net/software/prune/
GeoTiff format as well as Garmin's img vector map format. Additional it is the
PC side front end to QLandkarte M, a moving map application for mobile devices.
And it fills the gap Garmin leaves in refusing to support Linux. QLandkarte GT
is the proof that writing portable applications for Unix, Windows and OSX is
feasible with a minimum of overhead. No excuses!
QLandkarte GT does replace the original QLandkarte with a much more flexible
architecture. It's not limited to a map format or device. Thus if you think your
Magellan GPS or other should be supported, join the team.
Additionally it is a front end to the GDAL tools, to make georeferencing scanned
maps feasible for the normal user. Compared to similar tools like QGis, it's
target users are more on the consumer side than on the scientific one.
QLandkarte GT might not let you select every possible feature of the GDAL tools,
but it will simplify their use to the demands of most users.
WWW: http://www.qlandkarte.org/
PR: 135364
Submitted by: Mykola Dzham <freebsd@levsha.org.ua>
SIMBAD4. The new SOAP queries are supported, with the object carrying
default output type and output format, as well as server name on the
assumption that mirrors will be forthcoming.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Astro-SIMBAD-Client/
PR: ports/133602
Submitted by: Wen Heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
visibility, and a demonstration application (satpass) that
makes use of these classes.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Astro-satpass/
PR: ports/133605
Submitted by: Wen Heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
astronomers. It can be used for astronomical plots, some statistics,
common calculations, coordinate conversions, and manipulating FITS images
with World Coordinate System (WCS) information through PyWCSTools - a
simple wrapping of WCSTools by Doug Mink. PyWCSTools is distributed (and
developed) as part of astLib.
WWW: http://astlib.sourceforge.net
PR: ports/133084
Submitted by: Wen Heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
providing a visually pleasing but performant editing environment for
free geographical data.
It is based on Qt4.
WWW: http://www.merkaartor.org/
PR: 130338
Submitted by: Slaven Rezic <slaven at rezic dot de>
interferometry. In addition to pure-python phasing,
calibration, imaging, and deconvolution code, this package
includes interfaces to MIRIAD (a Fortran interferometry
package) and HEALPix (a package for representing spherical
data sets), and some math/fitting routines from SciPy.
WWW: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~aparsons/aipy
PR: ports/128811
Submitted by: Wen Heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
under the Python scripting language. It is useful for
interactive data analysis and for writing analysis
scripts in Python using FITS files as either input or
output. PyFITS is a development project of the Science
Software Branch at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
WWW: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyfits
PR: ports/128456
Submitted by: Wen Heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
developed by Astrodienst, largely based upon the DE406
ephemeris from NASA's JPL.
Developers can license the Ephemeris library.Ephemeris
users find 3200 years of read-made printable files of
ephemerides, containing 19'200 print pages in PDF quality.
The Swiss Ephemeris is available under a dual licensing
model: GPL2 or Swiss Ephemeris Professional License.
WWW: http://www.astro.com/swisseph/
PR: ports/128481
Submitted by: Wen Heping <wenheping at gmail.com>
provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US.
RoadMap is at an early stage of development. At this time there are no
routing features implemented yet. RoadMap can only display the map around
a specified street address or follow a GPS device (using gpsd). The plan
for the future is to implement some navigation features similar to those
found in commercial street navigation systems.
RoadMap uses a binary file format for representing the maps that is compact
enough to allow the storage of many maps on a Compact Flash or MultiMedia
card. The map of Los Angeles county takes about 10 Mbytes of flash space.
RoadMap comes with a set of tools to convert the US Census bureau data
into its own map format.
WWW: http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/
PR: ports/126056
Submitted by: Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee dot org>
Approved by: miwi (mentor implicit)
You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Google maps and/or
Terraserver maps under it, download geocaches for an area on the map, make new
tracks and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc.
It is written in C with the GTK+ 2 toolkit, available for Linux, other POSIX
operating systems, and Windows, and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
WWW: http://viking.sourceforge.net
PR: ports/123238
Submitted by: David Le Brun <david at trucs.org>
astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards
reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather
well on moderately crowded star fields.
WWW: http://terapix.iap.fr/soft/sextractor/
PR: ports/123046
Submitted by: Mathias Monnerville <mathias at monnerville.com>
programmers. It is free software under the GNU General Public License.
The library provides a wide range of astrodynamical routines such as
ephemerides, earth orientation, and orbit propagation. There are over 170
functions in total with an extensive test suit
WWW: http://homepage.mac.com/pclwillmott/GAL/
Submitted by: db
A command line based weather reporting tool written in python. View
current weather conditions, extended day forecasts, and station id
lookups as reported from weather.com. Customize output via weathergetrc
configuration file. Platform independent.
WWW: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/weatherget/
Author: Tyler Gates <TGates81@gmail.com>
xeartk is a tkgeomap application that uses the geomap::wdgeomap command
to create an interactive map. The geographic data is from the xearth
root window program. by Kirk Lauritz Johnson in an interactive widget.
xeartk is not part of and does not require xearth. It only uses the
outline data defined in file mapdata.c of the xearth source
distribution. The cities are from factmonster.
Adjust the map view by Shift-Double-Clicking or Shift-Dragging. Double
click a dot to display information about the city there on the terminal.
WWW: http://www.tkgeomap.org/xeartk.html
Author: Gordon Carrie <tkgeomap@users.sourceforge.net>
ptiger is a Tcl/Tk/Tkgeomap script that uses wdgeomap to display U.S.
Census Burea populated places on an interactive geographic map.
To run it, type ptiger on the command line. After a few seconds, a map
should appear. Adjust the view by Dragging or Double-Clicking. As the
cursor moves, a label below the map displays the cursor location and
the azimuth and range from the + marker to the cursor. Move the + marker
by Right-Double-Clicking. The map has dots at places with population
greater than a user selected threshold. Moving the cursor over a dot
labels the place with its name and displays the population in another
label below the map. In addition to the wdgeomap menus, a Places menu
enables adjustment of the population threshold and dot size. There is
also a Find menu that does a case insensitive regular expression search
for a named place.
WWW: http://www.tkgeomap.org/ptiger.html
Author: Gordon Carrie <tkgeomap@users.sourceforge.net>
Tkgeomap is an open source set of extensions to the Tcl/Tk scripting
language. It adds commands that read, manipulate, and display geographic
data.
It provides four packages:
* tclgeomap - library written in C adds commands for basic geography
calculations and data access.
* tclgeomap_procs - library written in Tcl adds procedures that
supplement tclgeomap.
* tkgeomap - library written in C that adds the ability to draw maps
* tkgeomap_procs - library written in Tcl adds procedures that
supplement tkgeomap.
WWW: http://www.tkgeomap.org/
using rigorous reduction methods from the _Astronomical Almanac_ and related
sources. Includes PLAN404 series for positions of the planets, and a long-term
extension of modern Lunar theory for the Moon's position. Reads ASCII file
catalogues of stars and orbital elements. Displays all adjustments as it finds
local azimuth and elevation, rise and set times, etc.
Latest update 2005-11-09.
WWW: http://moshier.net/aadoc.html
PR: ports/101850
Submitted by: Frank W. Josellis <frank@dynamical-systems.org>
weather looks like outside, in ASCII art. It includes rain, snow,
lightning, sleet, and hail. The windspeed and cloudiness are reflected
in the velocity and quantity of clouds. There are trees that age,
reproduce and die over the course of an hour, and a sun and moon that
follow the actual sun and moonrise. There's also a dancing turtle.
Author: Kirk Baucom <kbaucom@schizoid.com>
WWW: http://www.robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/
PR: ports/97371
Submitted by: Simon Olofsson <simon@olofsson.de>
whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips,
or even a serial upload or download to a GPS unit such as those from Garmin and
Magellan. By flattening the Tower of Babel that the authors of various programs
for manipulating GPS data have imposed upon us, it returns to us the ability
to freely move our own waypoint data between the programs and hardware we
choose to use.
It contains extensive data manipulation abilities making it a convenient for
server-side processing or as the backend for other tools.
WWW: http://www.gpsbabel.org/
PR: ports/96490
Submitted by: Laurent Courty <lrntct@gmail.com>
Use your unused CPU cycles to aid in computations analyzing radio
telescope information for possible signs of ET. The Enhanced version
is still beta, but this is mainly for administrative reasons.
This version is a FreeBSD binary built by Stefan Urbat for Pentium II
or AMD K6 CPUs and higher (requires MMX instructions).
WWW: http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml#freebsd
PR: ports/94980
Submitted by: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl>
Use your unused CPU cycles to aid in computations analyzing radio
telescope information for possible signs of ET.
This version is a Linux binary built by Harold Naparst for Pentium 3
CPUs and higher (requires SSE instructions). It was heavily optimized
for best performance, can process a work unit under an hour on recent
hardware.
WWW: http://naparst.name/seti.htm
Use your unused CPU cycles to aid in computations analyzing telescope
information for possible gravitational waves emitted by pulsars as
predicted by Albert Einstein.
WWW: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
PR: ports/93643
Submitted by: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@student.tue.nl>
attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports,
making all data on the location/course/velocity of the
sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the
host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications
(such as navigational and wardriving software) can share
access to GPSes without contention or loss of data. Also,
gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially
easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes.
WWW: http://gpsd.berlios.de/
PR: ports/91630
Submitted by: Anton Karpov <toxa@toxahost.ru>
John Walker's moontool for the X11 desktop. It shows a
real-time picture of the moon phases and displays some
related astronomical data about the moon and the sun. --
This version of the program uses the Motif toolkit.
WWW: http://www.fourmilab.ch/nav/topics/astrospace.html
PR: ports/91187
Submitted by: Frank W. Josellis <frank@dynamical-systems.org>
