Ham::APRS::FAP
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FAP - Finnish APRS Parser (Fabulous APRS Parser)

This module is a fairly complete APRS parser implemented in pure Perl.
It parses normal, mic-e and compressed location packets, NMEA location
packets, objects, items, messages, telemetry and most weather packets. It is
stable and fast enough to parse the APRS-IS stream in real time.

Unless a debugging mode is enabled, all errors and warnings are reported
through the API (as opposed to printing on STDERR or STDOUT), so that
they can be reported nicely on the user interface of an application.
This parser is not known to crash on invalid packets. It is used to power
the http://aprs.fi/ web site.

APRS features specifically NOT handled by this module:
 - special objects (area, signpost, etc)
 - network tunneling/third party packets
 - direction finding
 - station capability queries
 - status reports (partially)
 - user defined data formats

This module is based (on those parts that are implemented)
on APRS specification 1.0.1.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires a reasonably recent Date::Calc module.

DOCUMENTATION

This module is documented in perldoc format - see 'perldoc Ham::APRS::FAP'
(after installing) or 'perldoc /path/to/FAP.pm' (before installing).

THINGS TO DO

 - Adding more tests
 - Implement more of the missing features
 - Implement some more packet construction methods, passing data in a
   hash instead of a long list of parameters

SEE ALSO

  http://pakettiradio.net/libfap/ - C library port of Ham::APRS::FAP
  http://github.com/kd7lxl/python-libfap - Python bindings for libfap

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Tapio Sokura
Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Heikki Hannikainen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.