I just thought I'd let people know that I just pushed out version 2.1,
which makes the topics that it scans for vehicle names and GPS
coordinates configurable.  More details are in the README.  If you've
already got a database up and running and you want to update it without
starting over from scratch, there are buttons in the administration
panel that should force it to re-scan those items.

I'll probably take a little more time before I get another release out,
I just wanted to get those done quickly because I know they're important.

Thanks for all the feedback so far!

On 05/05/2016 04:50 PM, Hordur Heidarsson wrote:
> Nice! Writing something like this has been on my todo list for a wile,
> and now I don't have to! :)
> I've set it up using docker, super easy, and it's indexing right now,
> working nicely so far.
>
> Few questions:
> - The description, location & vehicle fields, can those be put in the
> bag file somehow before, like at recording time?
> - If I fill those fields out, is there any way of syncing the info
> back to the bag files or to some sidecar file?
>   (I actually wrote a tool to add metadata to bag files some time
> back https://github.com/hordurk/rosbag_metadata and was going to build
> some server side support for it later on)
> - Possible to edit those fields for many files at once (put same info
> in them for many files)?
> - I'm not seeing GPS data even though my bags have it. Is it looking
> for something else than sensor_msgs/NavSatFix ?
>   ....Never mind, just noticed that you only search at certain topics.
> Is this configurable? Why not just search for any topic of type
> sensor_msgs/NavSatFix?
>
> Awesome work, thanks for sharing!
>
> - hordur
>

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