Hi Joe,
It works well but I think the satellite pictures are from the stone
age, at least around here.
Darrel, VE7CUS
On 12-Feb-08, at 11:08 AM, Joe Veldhuis wrote:
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
