CCNY had a ground station display with GPS and attitude indicators.  I'm
not sure what it's current state is or what graphics library it uses, but
it's worth taking a look:

http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2010/08/cityflyer-ground-station.html
http://www.ros.org/doc/api/ground_station/html/files.html

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Austin Hendrix <legotown@aol.com> wrote:

> If you want to build something like the ground station functionality (
> http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/MPGCS ), I would suggest
> writing two plugins for RQT: one to visualize GPS data on a map, probably
> using the Google Maps API to provide satellite imagery, and another to
> display a roll/pitch/yaw vector as a simulated attitude indicator.
>
> -Austin
>
> On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Christopher Berner <
> christopherberner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Austin,
>
> I'm looking to build something like MissionPlanner (
> http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Mission), since it's Windows
> only and even in mono doesn't run that well. I looked around at what rviz
> could do, but it didn't seem to do controls and displays like that. I'll
> take a look at rat too, but mainly I want to visualize the roll/pitch and
> the GPS data on a map.
>
> Thanks!
> Christopher
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Austin Hendrix <legotown@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> How you visualize your data is heavily dependent on what you want to
>> visualize and how you want to display it.
>>
>> If you have data that's spatial or 3D, such as laser scan data or a 3D
>> direction vector, visualizing that data in rviz is probably better. If your
>> data is better represented as one or two variables vs time, rat may be a
>> better visualization tool.
>>
>> I would look carefully at the available tools before deciding that you
>> need to write a plugin. Rviz can already visualize direction vectors, 3D
>> transforms, and a number of different types of sensor data. RQT already has
>> plugins for graphing data against time, replacing the older rxplot tool.
>>
>> -Austin
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Christopher Berner <
>> christopherberner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm writing some GUI plugins for visualizing data coming off an
>> Arducopter, and after looking through the docs and release announcement for
>> Groovy, I'm not sure which library I should be writing plugins for. Is it
>> recommended that plugins be written for rqt or rviz? And are there any
>> tutorials for doing so, for the upcoming Groovy release?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> > Christopher
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