Question re logging GPS data from flight

[rcgyuk]

I want to be able to figure out where my glider has been during the whole of the flight. (We have a neighbour to our flying site with a tendency to complain, and I need to be able to prove my model wasn't responsible)

I presently have the D8R-II plus receiver, the Frsky hub, and the Frsky GPS connected through the hub. Tx is the Taranis.

I believe it is possible to record GPS data during flight to the internal SD card, and then display it on a PC.

This is the point I get stuck. Do I need any other hardware? How do I set up the Taranis to record the data?

How can I then get the data into Google Earth or similar, so I can see the path the plane followed in flight?

All help gratefully received.

Robert

[Kilrah]

You can record simply by using the Custom Function "SD Logs" with the logging interval as setting.

I don't think anybody has done a conversion program to display the plot in Google Earth yet though.

[rcgyuk]

So once I have the data, what can I actually do with it ?

[bob195558]

[Kilrah]

With the coordinates not much apart coying and pasting them for example to get a downed location.
All the other values can be plotted and used, but nobody made an interface with maps for the position points.
It's not a tremendous work, but somebody would have to do it of course.

[rcgyuk]

There seem to be lots of third party GPS loggers on the market, which export a file google earth can read.....perhaps I would be better of with something like that. Had really hoped the Taranis could do everything

[Kilrah]

The data is there, so it can providing someone does the work

[flyingmarquess]

Hello,
the same here.
I succesfully log the GPS coordinates but it's a kind of hybryd. I try to convert it in GPX format but I don't have all data to match nmea standard $GPGGA (global position with altitude).
I think that the only conversion is in $GPRMC without altitude (anyway altitude is sended but I think I can't use it in GPRMC).
I understand that because of the space the string is cutted but I think that the whole string should be sent without cut and in the correct order on csv file; in that way parsing and conversion in GPX for a 3d system should be easy.
bye

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[Kilrah]

Found this:
https://github.com/fluiddruid/TelemProc?source=cc

Maybe a good start that could be expanded to convert GPS info.