Today a good friend of Depiction, Brian, a third-party developer, demoed a very early version of his APRS Live add-on here at the office. This add-on, which will be going into beta very soon, takes data that comes in over radio frequencies, via an antenna, radio and terminal node controller. What this means is that live data is brought into Depiction without Internet access. Pretty cool. The software will eventually allow users to send and recieve short messages right from Depiction.

Brian shows his stuff:

A slightly closer view of the stuff in question. Those data points are coming in over radio, not the Internet: