Re: [Xastir] Has anyone had any experience with converting digital elevation models to shapefiles?

2008-10-26 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 09:54 -0600, Tom Russo wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:30:01AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: Converting Digital Elevation Models To Shapefile/DXF Contours Published at December 20, 2007 in DEM, GIS and

Re: [Xastir] Zypad?

2008-04-25 Thread Brad Douglas
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 22:54 -0700, Craig Anderson wrote: Anyone seen this before as a possible Xastir platform? Hi Craig, Interesting find. Here's my comments: I don't see why it couldn't run Xastir, so long as it runs a X server (they don't say), but I don't think it'll be fully functional

Re: [Xastir] Zypad?

2008-04-25 Thread Brad Douglas
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 12:55 -0400, Rick Green wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Brad Douglas wrote: - Still requires USB to TNC/radio for APRS, making arm placement fairly useless as USB is not a locking connector It supports bluetooth and Wifi. remote serial support is available for both

Re: [Xastir] A rant on the shapefiles...

2008-04-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 08:30 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote: I am wondering who participated in getting these maps made? Was it state, county, feds? Blame the census takers. Feds. Federalies. Men in black? For the purpose of taking the

Re: [Xastir] new Qt license and xastir v2

2008-01-24 Thread Brad Douglas
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 08:53 -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Brad Douglas wrote: Like I said before, let's leave this up to Xastir developers to decide what works best for them. We've both made good points they can reflect upon, so let's leave it at that. If you want

Re: [Xastir] Fedora Wiki, possible tweak

2008-01-24 Thread Brad Douglas
Post the relevant sections of your config.log or send the entire file to me privately (to avoid sending large files to the list). On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 07:46 -0600, Gerry Creager wrote: FWIW, if one were to do a 'yum install pcre-devel' it'd also install the base RPM. NOW: For you Fedora

Re: [Xastir] Re: Starting with a scanned USGS 7.5 paper map....

2008-01-19 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:27 -0700, Tom Russo wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 12:12:22PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: I am collecting the USGS topographic maps for my area and I am fortunate in that all except one were on Libre

Re: [Xastir] new Qt license and xastir v2

2008-01-19 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 11:44 -0600, Jason KG4WSV wrote: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/19/0130250from=rss I recall in the occasional xastir version 2 discussion, one of the issues is cross-platform portability. Qt is a contender, but there were serious concerns about the Qt license

Re: [Xastir] new Qt license and xastir v2

2008-01-19 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 18:41 -0600, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 4:36 PM, Brad Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would highly recommend using a wxPython GUI approach. I tried wxSomethingorother and it wouldn't compile out of the tarball on Solaris or Mac OS X as best I

Re: [Xastir] new Qt license and xastir v2

2008-01-19 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 19:50 -0600, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 7:00 PM, Brad Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you're doing it wrong. ;-) Hey, I'm never wrong. I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. Ditto. ;-) OTOH, there were some issues

Re: [Xastir] Proj

2007-12-21 Thread Brad Douglas
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 20:27 -0700, Tate Belden wrote: FWIW, It's been upgraded to 4.6.0 - re-compiled xastir on Fedora 8 on two different machines. No issues detected. ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.6.0.tar.gz It's also generally a good idea to install this as well:

Re: [Xastir] Xastir install help - Fedora 8 64

2007-12-16 Thread Brad Douglas
Install libtiff-devel and reconfigure. configure only checks if it can link. It doesn't check for presence of headers. On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:23 -0600, Bennett, Joe wrote: Hi, Looking for some insight here... I'm helping another ham install Xastir on a fresh install of Fedora 8... I ran

Re: [Xastir] Xastir compiled static?

2007-11-18 Thread Brad Douglas
that is not dependent on having all these libraries installed everywhere? -- Brad Douglas rez touchofmadness comKB8UYR/6 Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84National Map Corps #TNMC-3785 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http

Re: [Xastir] libtiff / libxtiff

2007-11-03 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:13 -0400, Chip Griffin wrote: OK, I'm closing in on success, but still need some help. I was able to reinstall X11 XCode and was able to then rebuild Xastir successfully. But it's been a slow painful process. My current stumbling block to getting things as they

Re: [Xastir] GDAL, db42, etc (Mac Leopard)

2007-11-03 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 13:20 -0400, Chip Griffin wrote: I was not able to get GDAL (1.4.3) to compile. I tried with just ./ configure and got an error when I tried to 'make' it. So, per the INSTALL file, I tried several of the switches mentioned. I added the 'internal' options one at a

Re: X-IMail-SPAM-Connection Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 16:49 -0500, Jason Winningham wrote: On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: Maps, maps and more maps. Ye gods, xastir already supports hundreds of formats. If there's an area of xastir lacking, that ain't it. (: I guess I need to get back to making

Re: Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:18 -0500, Jason Winningham wrote: On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Tate Belden wrote: Is that even possible? To standardize on a generic 'SQL' so a specific set of features offered by any one SQL server don't dictate that server and only that server can be used?

Re: Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:02 -0400, William McKeehan wrote: On Tue, October 9, 2007 2:46 pm, Brad Douglas wrote: Are you suggesting that everyone have a working http server on their local machine? That is quite an excessive (and generally insecure) method of accomplishing the given goal

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
Within this past year. I have friends that work at deCarta. On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:19 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: Interesting. Happened within the last 2 weeks? Brad Douglas wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 22:53 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: Google and Mapquest get their basemaps

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:18 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: Brad Douglas wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:18 -0500, Jason Winningham wrote: On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Tate Belden wrote: Is that even possible? To standardize on a generic 'SQL' so a specific set of features offered by any

Re: Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:32 -0400, William McKeehan wrote: I don't think you're hearing exactly what I'm saying. Obviously, I'm not. ;-) I would not expect the users to install and run a web server. If you're using Xastir, you have the option now of starting a server; I'm talking about the

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:59 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: Brad Douglas wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:32 -0400, William McKeehan wrote: I don't think you're hearing exactly what I'm saying. Obviously, I'm not. ;-) I would not expect the users to install and run a web server

Re: [Xastir] Openstreetmap?

2007-10-07 Thread Brad Douglas
respond to you favorably in the future. -- Brad Douglas rez touchofmadness comKB8UYR/6 Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84National Map Corps #TNMC-3785 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin

Re: [Xastir] Another way to run XASTIR under Windows

2007-09-27 Thread Brad Douglas
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 00:04 -0500, Lee Bengston wrote: Hi all, I tried andLinux tonight. It appears to be a great alternative to Cygwin and VMware - particularly for machines that have resource limitations that preclude using VMware. The andLinux page is at the link below:

Re: [Xastir] interface control-networked agwpe-properties bug

2007-09-17 Thread Brad Douglas
Hello, If you have significant changes that cross multiple files, I would use: 'diff -urN ...' 'r' tells diff to recurse the tree, looking for changes. 'N' tells diff to pick up new files added to the tree. If you are using CVS, I also recommended adding to ~/.cvsrc: cvs -z3 checkout -P update

RE: [Xastir] Maps question

2007-09-06 Thread Brad Douglas
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 14:03 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Andrew Rich wrote: What would be cool is a map repositry Agreed. +1 You're more than welcome to pilfer my CA maps. I've been busy and haven't been able to get around to finishing NV, yet. http://stratofox.org/gis

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Brad Douglas
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 06:47 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: Near as I could tell, it's not on Google's horizon but they're amenable to almost any non-terrorist use of Google Maps||Earth. I've looked at this a couple of times lately but I'm pure outta cycles and interrupt processing right now.

Re: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Brad Douglas
in general) and see it not as a violation. Even if used in your car. gerry Brad Douglas wrote: On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 06:47 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote: Near as I could tell, it's not on Google's horizon but they're amenable to almost any non-terrorist use of Google Maps||Earth. I've

Re: [Xastir] CA Maps

2007-08-22 Thread Brad Douglas
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:07 -0500, Lee Bengston wrote: On 8/11/07, Brad Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello from the 16th annual Linux Picnic. As promised, I have released my CA TOPOs and shaded-relief DEMs to the public. Further datasets are to follow

[Xastir] CA Maps

2007-08-13 Thread Brad Douglas
Hello from the 16th annual Linux Picnic. As promised, I have released my CA TOPOs and shaded-relief DEMs to the public. Further datasets are to follow in the coming months. http://www.stratofox.org/twiki/bin/view/GIS/WebHome Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Godda go! Ice

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Douglas
and covers the entire state of CA. Data for NV is in production. I'll cc: the group with the final URL. [1] http://linuxpicnic.org -- Brad Douglas rez touchofmadness comKB8UYR/6 Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84National Map Corps #TNMC-3785 GRASS GIS Project Steering

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Douglas
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:34 -0600, Steve Friis wrote: Brad Douglas wrote: PS - At this weekend's Linux Picnic[1], I'll be releasing some new maps to the public. I've created TOPOs with 500' contours and shaded relief (and colored by elevation) pesudo-DEMs to go under the TOPOs to make

Re: [Xastir] Help! with Linux

2007-08-03 Thread Brad Douglas
with SuSE anymore), you can do either of the following on the boot prompt (or append single or 1 to your boot parameters): linux single or linux 1 It should drop you into root without a password. -- Brad Douglas rez touchofmadness comKB8UYR/6 Address: 37.493,-121.924 / WGS84