[Xastir] message decay algorithm not playing well with javAPRSsrv / WIDEn-n dupe suppression?

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Winningham
There's a thread on the javAPRSsrv list about xastir's message retry decay algorithm not playing well with the duplicate supression done by both javAPRSsrv and the UIDIGI WIDEn-n. The issue has to do with the retries being attempted before the duplicate suppression (10s on WIDEn- n and 30s

[Xastir] xastir list server overly aggressive in DSBL use?

2008-05-02 Thread Jason Winningham
I just tried to send a message to the list from gmail, and the xastir list server bounced it based on some DSBL excuse. Is the xastir list server being overly aggressive, is DSBL broken, or what? -Jason Jason Winningham Computer Systems Engineer

Re: [Xastir] Terraserver problems with map registration

2007-11-28 Thread Jason Winningham
On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Tom Russo wrote: but if there were a way to search the archives for this list plug site:lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir searchphrase into google. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lis

Re: [Xastir] Infinity GPS Microphone

2007-11-20 Thread Jason Winningham
On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Fred Hillhouse wrote: Interesting product! yeah - the most interesting thing is that the radio looks exactly like the one Scott N1VG has listed for US$90. $400 price tag, though? Somebody's smoking crack, or looking to get a preferred gov't contract. It

Re: [Xastir] Xastir compiled static?

2007-11-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: A better recommendation would be to use the VMWare image inside VMWare Player, assuming that the end-user machines are adequate to run VMWare. That way you can run Linux inside VMWare and use either the Xastir-LSB version or a custom compiled ver

Re: [Xastir] boot from external drive?

2007-10-24 Thread Jason Winningham
On Oct 24, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Gerry Creager wrote: Fortran-based GUIs are, of course, an exercise for the truly interested student. Or the minimum-wage earning student. Once upon a time, I implemented some text support for a graphics library that was written in FORTRAN- IV (which, the his

Re: [Xastir] boot from external drive?

2007-10-23 Thread Jason Winningham
On Oct 23, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: *) DAEMON: We need a daemon that handles the interfaces, does the transmit timing, and talks to a database. The nice part about this multiple binary approach is that development could theoretically start soon, as the daemon could speak APRS-I

[Xastir] boot from external drive?

2007-10-23 Thread Jason Winningham
The xubuntu virtual machine is much easier to deal with than cygwin, but there are still problems getting xastir running on windows of the variety that windows users either can't or won't deal with. Even with the config file hardcoding, the usb/rs232/drivers/VM connection is too problemati

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-05 Thread Jason Winningham
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:48 AM, I wrote: http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/ Ah, this is more like it. At a glance: maps - so what? looks a lot like xastir (maybe they do a bit better job rendering labels). Keep looking: vector maps, rendered by the app, included routing, vector maps based on

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-05 Thread Jason Winningham
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:12 AM, William McKeehan wrote: Have a look at these: OK, I've looked and now I'll comment. (: http://www.gpsdrive.de/ look at the screen shots and "wow!". Then look at the documentation: raster maps only. These maps came from somewhere else. No routing. bleh.

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-04 Thread Jason Winningham
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? I seem to recall that postgres has some specific GIS-type extensio

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-04 Thread Jason Winningham
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. (: We need the ability to use Google maps Licensing issues could problematic, but I think someone is

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-10-04 Thread Jason Winningham
On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:27 PM, William McKeehan wrote: This would require Xastir having an "http" style server that would serve up pages and would respond to certain queries with XML code. Nice idea - this would be a reasonably easy interface for add-on tools. This makes me think of the Xast

Re: [Xastir] using a USB-to-serial adapter (fwd)

2007-09-16 Thread Jason Winningham
On Sep 12, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: they use the FDTI chipset which is well supported in many OS'es including Linux. I haven't used the devices from Parallax, but I have settled on FTDI as my favorite USB/232 chipset. I have several of these in various forms and they do work w

Re: [Xastir] xastir.org mailserver problem? (was: What's with the bullseye?)

2007-09-04 Thread Jason Winningham
X-Spam-Score: 7.59 (***) DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS FYI, the original message and Curt's reply went into my spam bucket. SpamAssassin apparently doesn't like the list server anymore. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-08-28 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Gerry Creager wrote: Of course, we could obfuscate this a bit... okay, let's call our new scripting language erl-pay. While I'm at it, here's my request for ig-pay atin-lay language support. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir

Re: [Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

2007-08-28 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 28, 2007, at 8:56 AM, William McKeehan wrote: Has anyone thought about adding a scripting capability within Xastir? We're on unix, so it's already there - it's called perl. (: An example of the type of thing that I'm thinking about would be keeping track of how many runners have pas

Re: [Xastir] Yippee!!! boxen is unwedged...

2007-08-23 Thread Jason Winningham
a few minutes a year (because it is considered critical), and I'd guess it is the least available of the three I mentioned. -Jason -------- Jason Winningham Computer Systems Engineer College of Engineering The University of Alabama in Huntsville http:/

Re: [Xastir] Display levels with GNIS files

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 13, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Alex Carver wrote: Playing around with the GNIS files, I've filtered them down a bit so that I'm not swamped with 30,000 records but I wanted to know what exactly is controlling whether a GNIS feature displays or doesn't at a particular zoom level. It's hard code

Re: [Xastir] standard err

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 20, 2007, at 4:18 PM, vic wrote: Can the output from xastir to the terminal be stopped somehow with a command or command string when xastir is started with the & option to put it into the background?? xastir 2>/dev/null & which means "redirect file descriptor 2 aka stderr to the fi

Re: [Xastir] Garmin Rino being dropped?

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote: What is the status of the new generation of trackers ( Tracker2, I think?). As I understand, the innovation is that they are digipeaters as well. Correct? Scott has a couple. The T2, currently in beta, seems to be very near production st

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: What is the difference between the Polygons and Polylines directory, if any? polygons are area features - lakes, golf courses, city boundaries, etc. Lines are linear features like roads, stream, railroads, etc. What file or files do I

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-13 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: Can I ask how you created/plotted the grey dotted rectangular box on the map? I am guessing its the search area of that particular aircraft? That is the position ambiguity for that APRS station, which is in fact an aircraft. For wh

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: What is the limitation on this? Is it something that can't be coded in? Hard/complex? Just curious I suspect it's a limitation of the linestyles available in Xlib without resorting to a) heavy coding, or b) adding yet another suppor

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: but still leaves me with one question, how to make it look better? I know I can adjust the fonts, background color etc, but what I am really after is to have a color scheme ala Google maps with colored roads etc. Easy? Hard? Impossible?

Re: [Xastir] Bug: Right click and mouse usage?

2007-08-09 Thread Jason Winningham
wow - replicated on the first try. 100% repeatable on my iMac, OS X 10.4.10, xastir 1.9.1, CVS as of a few days ago. no idea if it's an xastir thing, or an os X X11 thing. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xasti

Re: [Xastir] .xbm done for DENSE_FOG plus other info...

2007-08-06 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 6, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Eric H Christensen wrote: Shouldn't there be a way to prioritize them? For example, the Thunderstorm Warning should be trumped by the Tornado Warning. The current xbm's that I put together would "stack" - the text was placed so that text from one wouldn't go on

Re: [Xastir] Help! with Linux

2007-08-03 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: OK... I made a really dumb move. I cleaned up and tossed the installation notes. On that was the Administrators password. Is there anyway to recover it? Is there anyway to reset it? OK, this is rough because I'm not much of a linux guy (Solar

Re: [Xastir] Questions about Xastir running under VMplayer

2007-08-02 Thread Jason Winningham
On On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote: _*The downside is that VMplayer only allows for one serial port.*_ This is wrong. I've used two, one for the radio and one for the GPS. The xastir vm may only have one serial port _configured_ out of the box (er, zip file?), but it's cert

Re: [Xastir] Have lost the Online maps.... and a couple of other Q's

2007-07-24 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 24, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Yea, a receiver should work fine. Even a scanner. Yep, got an old Uniden police scanner scavenged from the parent's basement and a PIC/MX614 decoder feeding xastir on my desktop. Works fine. -Jason kg4wsv __

Re: [Xastir] libgeotiff (Mac OS X)

2007-07-24 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Chip G. wrote: /usr/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /usr/local/lib/ libgeotiff.a is out of date; rerun ranlib In this case the error message tells you what to do (but it isn't all that clear if you haven't heard of the ranlib command). sudo ranlib /us

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 19, 2007, at 2:20 PM, James Ewen wrote: Plus APRS is available for no fee to the amateur radio community, but you need to talk to Bob Bruninga about licensing it for commercial use. I thought that was for the application APRS-DOS, not the protocol itself? If that gets to be a probl

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Does anyone know, can I change colors and symbols and show labels now, You are now ready for the wonderful world of dbfawk writing. Wiki instructions at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK The original instructions I used: h

Re: [Xastir] Weather Shapes formatting

2007-07-12 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 12, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Tom Russo wrote: Actually, the weather alerts are stippled using patterns that are loaded in at the time xastir is started, and these could be edited with the utterly simple X11 "bitmap" program (which should be part of the x11 clients package on any X install)

Re: Spam:*****, Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 8, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Chip G. wrote: is it certain to he the driver? Nope. I was getting pretty wound up trying to solve a similar problem. It eventually occurred to me that my faithful Keyspan device might actually be dead. It was. -Jason kg4wsv ___

Re: [Xastir] New geocode database files available at aprs.tamu.edu

2007-07-06 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Reuven Z Gevaryahu wrote: I had tried doing this a few months back, and noticed that the geocoder scripts gave many errors, There were some errors ("unexpected version code") that I think were related to having a newer version of the TIGER data than the script

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Or create new GNIS files somehow? Well, you're one of the developers, so you tell me if it makes more sense to: - create new GNIS files in the old format with new data (assuming that's possible) - re-code so that xastir understands the ne

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-03 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Curt Mills wrote: Note: I'm not a Mac user, but _am_ a Unix and Linux user/SysAdmin, me too... so I'm not sure how fragile a Mac is these days. I would think not very fragile... nope, not at all. I personally rank it just below solaris and above linux in r

Re: [Xastir] Mac: odd process problem

2007-07-02 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Chip G. wrote: I have no idea what some of that stuff means ... time to RTFM for ps. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZRSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND jdw232 2.1 0.056044476 p1 RFri06AM 103:52.88 xastir jdw231 0.8

Re: [Xastir] Portable Digipeater Antenna?

2007-07-01 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 1, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Ray Wells wrote: Given that a J-pole is only a dipole with an alternative feed method (i.e. at the end rather than the centre), I have to wonder where this gain comes from. beats me, but when we fly 'em on the balloons, the J-pole has a better range. Could b

Re: [Xastir] Portable Digipeater Antenna?

2007-07-01 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 1, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote: I have just now created a vertical 1/2 wave dipole. I tune it with an MFJ box. A roll-up J-pole is slightly more complex to build (but not much!) and doesn't need a tuner. A J-pole has noticeably more gain than a dipole, too. -

Re: [Xastir] System cost options

2007-06-26 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Is the general consensus that I should wait until we can afford the Kenwood / GPS unit system or go now with one of the Rino options. That sort of depends on your situation: is something better than nothing? Sure the Rino FRS doesn't have t

Re: [Xastir] Newbee question re: Garmin Rino / Cygwin / Xastir and SAR

2007-06-26 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Garmin Rinos within 5 miles of the search incident command would be a workable alternative. This seems pretty optimistic. I don't know about the Rinos, but in my very limited experience with FRS radios 5mi seems to be a bit much for them,

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jun 25, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Tom Russo wrote: If your ECW images are 24-bit color, you'll also have to convert to 8-bit for geotiff (because nobody's written the 24-bit geotiff code yet). I've done that for some color DOQQs in my area. Just wondering if there would be a performance hit go

Re: [Xastir] Fetching a trail

2007-06-17 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jun 17, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Earl Needham wrote: Ah -- maybe I misunderstood. I thought the question was whether I had moved while downloading the track. The track should have actually shown my movement of perhaps 2000 miles. well, a download only gets packets that made it to an

Re: [Xastir] KPC-9612+

2007-06-12 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Tom Russo wrote: It could be the case that VMware thinks that the modem is COM1 or something bizarre like that, so it assigns /dev/ttyS0 on the linux side to COM2 on the Losedows side. I had this and similar issues with VMware during my limited dealings wit

Re: [Xastir] USB GPS?

2007-05-24 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 24, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Richard Polivka wrote: About the sequencing, if you have unique ID's to your USB components, one could hack the hotplug/udev scripts to steer the unique ID to a particular device name. I did it a long time ago for a M$ GPS dongle but I do not remember how to do

Re: [Xastir] I'm about to ask some dumb questions...

2007-05-23 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 23, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: I can't seem to get Xastir to transmit my position. I'm runnign without a TNC, via TCP/IP all of the following must be true: - interface configuration must allow transmitting - IS interface must have correct password (generated w

Re: [Xastir] How to delete Xastir

2007-05-21 Thread Jason Winningham
There's an uninstall option for make (sudo make uninstall). Be sure you save your maps first. No idea how clean it gets things... That said, there's usually no reason to delete anything. I've never had a reason to delete the install or config files. I have occasionally managed to corrupt

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 16, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Craig Anderson wrote: That APRS channel could be co-resident with a TCP/IP over AX.25 KISS channel that I suppose could really be carrying the CAD objects. TCP/IP is a connected mode point to point protocol, not really suitable for one-to-many communications.

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 16, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Tom Russo wrote: Then again, I am not sure if the multipoint protocol allows enough vertices with enough precision to do all that CAD objects can do. string 'em together - as long as you have bandwidth, you can use multiple multiline objects. -Jason kg4wsv

[Xastir] interface failures, part 2

2007-05-05 Thread Jason Winningham
good morning/afternoon/evening all, I'm still dealing with xastir losing the serial port at times. (a reminder of my issue, the actual fault is with USB problems, not with xastir.) I think maybe xastir could be a bit smarter about recovery, and an automatic retry for devices (like server

Re: [Xastir] more wiki spam

2007-05-02 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 1, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Tom Russo wrote: The main page should probably have at least a confirm-by-email registration process and require registration for commenting. Unfortunately the vandals have that automated, too... -Jason kg4wsv ___

[Xastir] more wiki spam

2007-05-01 Thread Jason Winningham
anyone noticed the comments under "stable version ... is out" on www.xastir.org? lotsa wikispam. http://www.xastir.org/article.php?story=20061103223112116#comments -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi

Re: [Xastir] Dayton Hamvention Xastir help

2007-05-01 Thread Jason Winningham
Doesn't Dana (N1OZF?) have a double-clickable install for Mac OS? It's an older version (1.8.0 or thereabouts) but it's fine for trying out xastir. I suggest bringing questions to the entire list - even if one person is primarily answering, it gives others a chance to point out things th

[Xastir] heard stations as waypoints to GPS?

2007-04-30 Thread Jason Winningham
Does xastir send waypoints corresponding to heard stations to an attached GPS like the D7/D700 do? I nearly always use xastir with a GPS engine or without a GPS, so I can't remember... -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org htt

Re: [Xastir] Serial GPS support in Xastir built from Darwin Ports?

2007-04-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 27, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: Ok, so I connected my GPS, found it was sdevice: /dev/tty.KeySerial1 Enabled it in Interfaces menu, and Xastir hung saying "waiting for GPS". So I guess I gotta go build gpsd?! no, just put the GPS on that port and configure a GPS

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Alex Carver wrote: Actually, I do have two copies of the county files for the same reason you do, one to show weather alerts and one to show counties. This is a roundabout way of getting there (I got there by accident), but the National Atlas has a counties shap

Re: [Xastir] Looking for GNIS files

2007-04-25 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 25, 2007, at 5:52 AM, gdw wrote: Does anyone by chance have the older gnis files for SC, NC and GA? I am setting up a machine for the Columbia, SC Weather Service and have discovered that the current gnis files from the .gov site don't work. those three are at http://www.eng.uah.ed

Re: [Xastir] Dbfawk font_size

2007-04-17 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote: I'd like to display the label of a county (for example) depending on the zoom level. Is there a way to do this? I can't figure out the expression for it. I wanted to display borders in a different line style based on zoom level, bu

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Winningham
If I remember correctly, if your TNC isn't KISS, xastir can't use it to digipeat. Xastir's digi function is a bit limited, and not really intended to take the place of a full-up digipeater. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xastir] Tiger map data?

2007-04-11 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: I haven't tried the latest Shapefile downloads so I don't know if the distributed dbfawk files work properly with them. Who's tried this? I think I have. The latest use the FIPS code instead of county for the filename, right? -Jason kg4wsv

Re: [Xastir] improved error messages for interface failures?

2007-04-09 Thread Jason Winningham
Something else that I forgot to mention: would it be appropriate to add retry capability to local devices? IIRC, an internet server interface can be flagged to reconnect on net failure, but there's no such option for other devices. Here's the scenario that happened Saturday: GPS and two

[Xastir] improved error messages for interface failures?

2007-04-09 Thread Jason Winningham
Had a few problems with my APRS rig on this weekend's balloon chase. All have been attributed to pilot error and yet another faulty Belkin USB hub (which I guess could also be considered pilot error, since it's the third time I've been bitten by a Belkin hub, but we won't go there). Xast

Re: [Xastir] KPC-3Plus

2007-04-03 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 3, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Peter Maxfield wrote: Is /dev/ttyS3 the equivalent of com4? only if it's a "real" com port. For a USB device, look at /dev/ ttyUSBx, where x is 0 for the first rs232/usb device enumerated, 1 for the second, etc. I'm assuming you are running linux native and

Re: [Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: This might muck with the TOCALL a bit. Right now we're sending APX185. We'd need to send APX110 which would appear to be going backwards in our revisions. do it in hex? APX1A0 -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xas

Re: [Xastir] Downloading Maps

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 27, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Jason D. Triolo wrote: Both receive the online maps (tigermap.geo) very well when I'm online. However, I would like to use these same maps on my notebook when no Internet connection is available. Is there someplace where these maps can be downloaded and stored

Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Jason Winningham wrote: I think in the contrib directory That was vague; I should have said in the _shapelib_ contrib directory (as opposed to the xastir contrib directory). -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing

Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Troy M. Campbell wrote: When I get time to learn more about shapefiles. I'm certainly no expert, but I think in the contrib directory there are some tools to build shapefiles for you. shapefile is a binary format, so it would be something like "use perl to fe

Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote: I _could_ get a file with population by FIPS code and merge it into a GNIS set using XASTIR's current file format, If you're gonna do that, why not just make it a shapefile and create a dbfawk, so the sufficiently interested user can con

Re: [Xastir] xastir VM woes

2007-03-13 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 9, 2007, at 4:27 PM, I wrote: I'm having issues running xastir in a VMware vm that I suspect are virtual machine-host machine issues. I've got everything loaded and going, including handing control of a USB/rs232 adapter to the guest OS. The extremely strange (and frustrating) th

[Xastir] xastir VM woes

2007-03-09 Thread Jason Winningham
I'm having issues running xastir in a VMware vm that I suspect are virtual machine-host machine issues. I've got everything loaded and going, including handing control of a USB/rs232 adapter to the guest OS. The extremely strange (and frustrating) thing is that the guest machine can write

[Xastir] making big shapefiles

2007-03-09 Thread Jason Winningham
I've been thinking about ways to simplify map configuration, and an idea that just hit me was to combine TIGER shapefiles from multiple counties to make one huge shapefile, reducing the set to three or four per state. I know I'm gonna take a hit the first time I read a big shapefile, but r

Re: [Xastir] AX25 interfacing

2007-03-04 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: I also looked at the permissions for the pty port: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 0 2007-02-24 19:51 /dev/ptyp0 I think these things come in pairs - ptypX and ttypX. If it's a permission problem, you may need to check/change both. -Jason

Re: [Xastir] Radar and Tigermaps

2007-03-01 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:27 AM, William M. Bickley wrote: I can see either a weather radar or a Tigermap just fine, but I can't figure out how to display both at the same time. When I choose both, I only see the Tigermap. What's the trick? map -> map chooser -> properties make sure the rad

Re: [Xastir] APRStt

2007-02-28 Thread Jason Winningham
On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:42 PM, William McKeehan wrote: I think Bob may have a good idea with the APRStt thing. I can see several instances where it would be nice to have someone with an HT enter some data quickly just by entering touch tones. The biggest hitch I see is that you're typing bl

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Feb 19, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Jason Winningham wrote: (except for the missing polygons). I should clarify: the polygon data is generated via a different method, and results in a separate shapelib. Again, there is nothing wrong with the shapefiles you generated. -Jason kg4wsv

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Feb 19, 2007, at 3:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is another method that is better, I can redo the whole process. It takes a few days though. nah, the data is fine, just minor organizational issues (except for the missing polygons). -Jason kg4wsv __

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Winningham
I just downloaded the lot of 'em (I2 between me and Gerry :) and took a quick look. Most files extract into a subdirectory called "xlate". A few extract into the current directory. Files have the same signature, so existing dbfawks work. FIPS coded filenames aren't too friendly, but the z

Re: [Xastir] Another way to get Linux and Xastir

2007-02-06 Thread Jason Winningham
On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote: I always wanted to experiment with Linux being installed on a USB pen drive. What was the performance like, especially compared to a live CD? Knoppix worked very well but still cannot get it (as of yet) to work with my wireless Ethe

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and TCP/IP over AX.25 coexistence?

2007-02-05 Thread Jason Winningham
On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Craig Anderson wrote: I want to be able to pick up the APRS packets at those hill-top radios but display them back in the EOC. If you're talking about an RF solution, you just described a digi... What should run on the hill-top computer? Is there a simple forwa

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Jason Winningham
If y'all keep talking I'm gonna have to learn how to do a multihead sunray configuration just so I can put 30 of 'em on one virtual X display. Let's see, 6 monitors wide by 5 tall running at 1900x1200 resolution. What would xastir look like at 11400 x 6000 resolution? (: -Jason kg4wsv

Re: [Xastir] Bluetooth connection to D700!

2007-02-03 Thread Jason Winningham
On Feb 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Tom Russo wrote: This is by no means an inexpensive alternative to a USB<->Serial dongle, No kidding. $60 per serial connection, plus one for your laptop if it isn't built in. What I can't figure out is why a bluetooth adapter for the computer can be had fo

Re: [Xastir] Xastir OS X

2007-01-07 Thread Jason Winningham
If you're talking about the online TIGERmaps, the TIGER server frequently gets bogged down. You may want to try increasing the timeout (which I think is located in the .geo file). -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://l

Re: [Xastir] non-kernel mkiss app usefulness?

2006-12-26 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 26, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Carl Makin wrote: Source code to a linux mkiss daemon that should be pretty easy to make work without the linux ax25 code is reachable via the radio.linux.org.au site; http://radio.linux.org.au/pkgdetail.phtml? sectpat=All&ordpat=&descpat=&pkgid=93 Thanks.

Re: [Xastir] mac osx 10.4.8 Xastir 1.8.5 working here, mostly.

2006-12-21 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Bob Nielsen wrote: Of course, much newer versions are available for OSX with Darwinports and probably Fink. ... and we come full circle. (: I started on this particular tangent because of the difficulty in a) figuring out which was used, fink, darwinports,

Re: [Xastir] Transmitting objects

2006-12-21 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 21, 2006, at 7:27 AM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: Is there a script that exists that will let me do this? There is some code that will connect to an APRS-IS server and generate objects. There is an xastir tool to feed date to an xastir-specific UDP port. Of course, there's also some

Re: [Xastir] mac osx 10.4.8 Xastir 1.8.5 working here, mostly.

2006-12-21 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 20, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Tom Russo wrote: The one that comes with FreeBSD is, I believe, version 1.8.5 or thereabouts. My bet is that Mac OS X's is probably of a similar vintage. sounds right, could be even older. db.h says * @(#)db.h8.7 (Berkeley) 6/16/94 * $FreeBSD: src

Re: [Xastir] APRS satellite

2006-12-20 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 20, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Darryl Gibson wrote: Anybody familiar with the APRS satellite the shuttle is launching in 20 minutes? I listening to NASA comms. via IRLP, and it is called RASP, or RAFT. Only from a recent announcement to the APRS SIG. I think there are two of them, RAFT an

Re: [Xastir] mac osx 10.4.8 Xastir 1.8.5 working here, mostly.

2006-12-20 Thread Jason Winningham
Just out of curiosity, is there some reason we're not using the DB that comes with Mac OS X? Curt, if you need an account on an OS X machine I can probably arrange it (I assume you can SSH in and to the X11 forwarding thing). -Jason kg4wsv ___

Re: [Xastir] Xastir virtual machine now available for download

2006-12-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:30 PM, James Ewen wrote: Jason's server rocks! I was able to pull down the file at an average of 3.5 Mbps, with peaks to 4.5 Mbps. If I were on a fast connection, I wonder what I could have done! Glad to hear it - I can't remember the last time I heard something positiv

Re: [Xastir] Reporting configure report

2006-12-18 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Tom Russo wrote: Time to turn it on by default? yep. I've been ready for a while now. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

2006-12-16 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote: I agree, although changing the spec is likely to be difficult. Thus, I'm thinking about a back-door approach to create the weather products. Could we do something as simple as a keyword in the status test to indicate it meets NWS/

Re: [Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

2006-12-15 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: It also sounds like the values requested by NOAA are different than the APRS spec dictates we transmit. In this case, should we lobby to have the APRS spec changed to meet NOAA standards? -Jason kg4wsv _

Re: [Xastir] Need Feedback: CVS, plus LSB Xastir info

2006-12-15 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Where is GraphicsMagick installed on that system? In particular what are the full paths to these files? on Mac OS X, depends on if fink, darwinports, or standard install is used. The base dir will be one of /sw /opt /usr/local -Jason kg4w

Re: [Xastir] [aprssig] TGR2SHP TIGER/Line translator is now Freeware (fwd)

2006-12-13 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Tom Russo wrote: Having never used TGR2SHP, I don't know if there's a clear advantage to switching tools. The process is sufficiently complex that there are things that are missed by the ogr2ogr/Xastir-tigerpoly.py method, so maybe there is a good reason to s

Re: [Xastir] [aprssig] TGR2SHP TIGER/Line translator is now Freeware (fwd)

2006-12-13 Thread Jason Winningham
Is this different than the python scripts, whose output we've been using for a few years now? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Mac and GPS

2006-12-12 Thread Jason Winningham
On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Chip G. wrote: I haven't had any success in adding GPSMan to my system. I had GPSman working on my mac (until I installed a new OS and broke _everything_, mostly on purpose). I don't recall it being a significant effort, but I did find two things when I poked

Re: [Xastir] Linux Standard Base Test

2006-11-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Nov 27, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Steve Friis wrote: So, can I suggest 14580:m/100 ? I don't recall what the m filter does, but the default should _not_ be anything that depends on the successful transmission of a packet to the IS to result in a data flow back to xastir. Hmm, come to think o

Re: [Xastir] New user..and thanks..

2006-11-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Nov 19, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Curt Mills wrote: Unfortunately I think most of the trackers out there aren't set up to transmit more often than once per minute using timeslotting. I fly opentrackers on balloons with timeslotting and intervals of 20s or 30s. Works just fine. -Jason kg4wsv

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