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I am trying to get data from a gps and use it in a program that I am writing. I read somewhere that ROS services would be an ideal tool for me to use to accomplish my task. I read over the tutorial that ROS provides but I am still having troubles understanding how to use them. In the links below I have the information that I need for my program to work.
http://docs.ros.org/jade/api/geograph... http://docs.ros.org/jade/api/geograph...
You use messages for many-to-many communication over ROS Topics, whereas Services provide Request/Response communication.
So both could be used what you try to do, depending on your actual use case.
See the Tutorials Page on the ROS wiki, especially the Beginner tutorial sections 10. for creating msgs and srvs, 11-13 for Topic communication via Publisher/Subscribers and 14-16 for Services. From the explanation there, the differences should become clear.
So what I need for my program to work is a latitude and a longitude and I need to get it from the geographic_msgs/GeoPoint.msg message but I am still not sure on how to do that. Once I get those two points then my program uses them to send some files to a user.
This seems to be a typical use case for a Subscriber. (Assuming you already have a node that works as a driver for the GPS device and publishes this message) See the Tutorials Page on the ROS Wiki, beginner level, Tutorials 11-13 for this.
If you have a specific question, please post a new one.
Asked: 2015-08-04 17:31:27 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 05 '15
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well negotiator14, could you use messages communication instead of services since this are messages files?
And the question is...?