http://www.electroblog.com/radio/yahooaprs/index.php
Something I've been working on on-and-off for awhile. There are at least a dozen web apps out there that plot APRS data on Google maps, but in many areas (including all of Ottawa and Allegan counties in Michigan) there is no high-resolution aerial imagery. Yahoo's maps have medium to high-res imagery almost everywhere, but I haven't been able to find any APRS plotters using them. On the request of a local ham, a few months ago I threw together something that would get the location of a given APRS station, then redirect to a Yahoo map centered there. I left it like that until today, when I decided to start working on it again. Now, rather than simply redirecting to Yahoo's site, it actually embeds a map on my own page. I haven't yet implemented the APRS icon set, but that will soon be done. Using Yahoo's AJAX API it is possible to put markers on the map using any specified image, so it's just a matter of taking the icon code for the station and selecting the appropriate image. The goal is to provide as much information as possible about a single, explicitly queried station. Eventually I'll have status and comment text, as well as any weather data, displayed along with the position. It's not possible to make something like aprs.he.fi since that would require me to constantly monitor the APRS-IS feed, which would require a daemon process, which my host doesn't allow. I suppose I could do it on my home computer if there were demand for such a thing... Comments? -Joe, N8FQ
