Autel support

[mb34928]

Great app I love the interface and the options. Wondering if there's plans to add a Autel Support.

[arpanghosh8453]

Thank you, this is not in the current roadmap as it can make the project harder to maintain for me in the future! there seems to be too many formats to support! I encourage to have a middleman user script to convert it to one of the supported format as of now, as that is more scalable and maintainable.

If you can provide some sample and have a parser library, I can try to help you with the user script approach.

[GeoSpark]

That's quite good timing because I have mostly reverse-engineered the Autel log format (for the Evo II v3 anyway) and written a preliminary script to convert them into ODL CSV files. It's not in a repo yet, but there should be something in the next day or two. If you have some log files you can send me, I can test them against my code.

[arpanghosh8453]

@GeoSpark amazing, when this is ready (Not sure which language you are writing the parser with), you can use the plug-in script method for native integration with the application : #64 (comment)

[GeoSpark]

It's in Python. The CLI interface matches the expected one for ODL, but I'm currently running it as a standalone app while I'm tweaking things.

[GeoSpark]

I am pleased to announce the release of the Autel parser! Releases can be found here: https://github.com/GeoSpark/autel-odl/releases I have tested the Linux version; there's no reason the other two platforms won't work, but I welcome anyone willing to try them.

It's pretty feature complete and it fills in all the columns ODL expects with sensible data.

Orthometric height (height above sea level) isn't available in the logs so all heights are reported as relative to the start point.

Bugs reports and feature requests welcomed.