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#!/usr/bin/perl 

use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use URI;

$pathtodata='/home/mydir/';
$gpsfilename='GPSinfo.txt';
$camurl='http://myweb.com/webcam.jpg'; #URL for webcam

#Get the all the values for current time
($Second, $Minute, $Hour, $Day, $Month, $Year, $WeekDay, $DayOfYear,
	$IsDST) = localtime(time);
@Days = ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday",
	"Saturday");
@Months = ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
	"August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
$dayText = $Days[$WeekDay];
$dateText = $Day + 0;
$yearText = 1900 + $Year;
$monthText = $Months[$Month];

$file=$pathtodata.$gpsfilename;
open (GPSDATA, "<$file");
$GPSrecord = <GPSDATA>;
close(GPSDATA);
#assign variables
$_  = $GPSrecord;
($latitude)  = /Latitude=(\d*\.\d{1,5})/g;
($longitude) = /Longitude=(-?\d*\.\d{1,5})/g;
($altitude)  = /Altitude=(\d*)/g;
($speed)     = /Speed=(\d*)/g;
($direction) = /Direction=(\d*)/g;
($GPStime)   = /Time=(.*)Latitude/g;
($refresh)   = /Refresh=(\d*)/g;

if ($refresh < 10){
	$refresh = 60;
}
# begin web page HTML
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" CONTENT=\"$refresh\">\n";
print "<title>CPS - Chase Positioning System</title>\n";
print "<html><body><pre>\n";
print "<b>My last reported position is indicated by the star in the map below\n";
print "Click on map image for a zoomable version\n";
if ($altitude > 0){
	print "Altitude  = $altitude ft.\n";
}
if ($speed > 5){
	print "Speed = $speed MPH    Direction = $direction°\n";
}
else {
    print "Speed < 5 MPH     Direction = Not Accurate\n";
}
print "GPS Time = $GPStime GMT</b><hr>";
######################################################################
my ($page, $localfile) = 
("http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=$latitude&longitude=$longitude&zoom=5","pic.html");
$page = "http://$page" unless $page =~ m{^http://};
$url = URI->new($page);
# Get requested page from Mapquest and save it locally
$html = get($page) || '';
# Parse the Web page to identify images
$parser = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$html);
while ( $img_info = $parser->get_tag('img')) {	# Look for input tags
  $image_name = $img_info->[1]->{'src'};	# Get img filename from src param
  $image_url = URI->new($image_name);
  $image_file = $image_url->abs($url);# Determine the full URL for this image
  $imagefiles{$image_file} = 1;			# Save it
}
# Find image url containing 'mq-mapgend'
foreach $this_image (keys %imagefiles) {	# For each image URL that we saved
  if ($this_image =~ /mq-mapgend/) {
    # Display image and link to Mapquest
  	print "<a target=\"_blank\" href=$page>\n<img src=$this_image></a>  <img src=$camurl>\n";
  }
}
#####################################################################
print "</pre></body></html>\n";
exit(0);







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