Recent talk in the ESP thread got me thinking and I believe an open GNSS file format would be really useful for the speedsurfing community.
Due to my personal background as a long-time software developer and familiarity with GNSS data, I decided to share some ideas. Long story cut short, I've done an extensive brain dump and created a project on GitHub as the basis for a possible standard.
The project is by no means the finished article, merely the fruits of a few hours work since the topic first arose yesterday. However, I think the project on GitHub should be a good platform for further discussions.
Warning: This link is only for the software and data geeks amongst you!
github.com/Logiqx/open-gnss
Great initative. Open source/open formats are the best for users. But how do we promote adoption? Corporations don't like open formats and I'm not certain many people in the windsurfing community know what an open format is.
I think this will mainly apply to the DIY community, at first anyway.
There's an increasing numbers of Jans' esp32s being built and they have been banned from using OAO format.
Later on others may take it up.
[...] and they didn't take an offer to use OAO against proper credits, some small efforts to avoid impersonating Motions and commitment to non-commercial use.
I won't be participating but appreciate the effort.