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XML Feed of Coords or TLE?
Is there an online source of ISS coordinates (2d - "point where the ISS
is currently overhead") or the TLE (Two Letter Epheremides)? Although the coordinates would be easier for me to use, I suspect sufficiently-accurate polling from only a handful of installations could easily swamp the server. So a TLE that is updated every 24hrs might be better. It means I would have to write code to convert the TLE into a coordinate. The best I've found so far, are sites like heavens-above.com and http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...SS/SVPOST.html Both would need to be screen-scraped - something I don't fancy doing, if I can help it! An XML feed is much more preferable. Apologies if this is an FAQ but I've done quite a bit of Googling and although I've found a few web sites, most are down (eg. the NASA page used by the Google Maps O'Reilly Hack) or would be difficult to use (eg. screen scraping required rather than a simple XML request) I intend to write a demo program from this. If successful then this will lead to an article and the code being open-sourced. The actual code that I wish to demonstrate has been written, but I'd like a neat little application that is useful/interesting in its own right! :-) -- Richard Marsden Winwaed Software Technology LLC http://www.winwaed.com Tools and Add-ins for MapPoint - http://www.mapping-tools.com |
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