TacScribe

Writes object state from a tacview server to a PostGIS extended Postgresql database for further processing by other systems.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'tac_scribe'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install tac_scribe

Usage

You can run the tool using the tac_scribe command. Use the --help option for information on required arguments

Whitelist

If you want to restrict what units get written to the database (e.g. for performance reasons) then create a whitelist file and pass that in with the whitelist option. For example if you only care about air units and landing areas create a file like the following:

whitelist.txt

With the following content

Sea+Watercraft+AircraftCarrier
Air+Rotorcraft
Air+FixedWing
Ground+Static+Aerodrome
Navaid+Static+Bullseye

and add -w whitelist.txt to the command-line.

The unit type is the type provided by Tacview and it must be an exact match

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Postgresql and PostGIS

This gem requires postgresql and PostGIS available and listening on an accessible network port.

See the db folder for information on running the database migrations.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitLab at https://gitlab.com/overlord-bot/tac-scribe.

Adding Data

There are incomplete data-files for this project whose completion would be very helpful. See the data folder. Current tasks needed are:

• Complete the list of all airfields in DCS with their position information

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.