Re: [Xastir] suse gdal

From: Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jay Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: xastir@xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] suse gdal Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:45:02 -0700 On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:26:04PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xastir] suse gdal

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:26:04PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >From: Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Jay Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xastir@xastir.org > >Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Wiki > >Date

[Xastir] Course & Speed problem

I noticed that the last time I was mobile my station icon did not rotate to indicate my direction of travel. My beacons also did not contain a course/speed. My setup is SuSE 10.1 with CVS from 11/7. (I have all optional libraries installed except for gpsman and also have --with-error-popups

Re: [Xastir] suse gdal

From: Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jay Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xastir@xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Wiki Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:56:46 -0700 But I see now that it's your version of GEOS generating the errors. Can't help you there. You might try up

[Xastir] Snapshot and logfile troubles

All, I am running current cvs and having trouble with snapshots, logfiles, etc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.xastir/config> Couldn't open config file for appending: /home/tim/.xastir/data/nws-stations.txt/config/xastir.cnf Couldn't recover /home/tim/.xastir/data/nws-stations.txt/config/xastir.cnf from /ho

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows]]

Original Message Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows] Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:47:03 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Darryl As long as it is clearly stated where it came fro

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

Darryl Gibson wrote: Yep, that's Keith, we used to handle traffic together. If I can track down his email address, I'll ask him. Done, waiting for a reply. -- Darryl Gibson N2DIY RLU X 182668/379552 “Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a f

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

Curt, WE7U wrote: BTW: I looked into the WORLDHI.MAP file. It lists WU2Z in there, which I think is one of the Sproul brothers. Anyone care to ask them if we could use it? Yep, that's Keith, we used to handle traffic together. If I can track down his email address, I'll ask him. -- Darryl

Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu Custom CD.

On 10 Nov 2006, at 18:25, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: Wow! I've been wanting to do this forever, did you include the latest version of Xastir? Snagged from CVS Earlier today, but it was a rush job in the end.. so if I made any mistakes, it'll be Monday before I look at them. I may have been ov

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:21:14PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:12:33PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > > > > *) Will GDAL/OGR and th

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:12:33PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Just thought of some more things: > > *) The docs need to get updated to talk about the private version of > Shapelib. Yeah. > *) Will GDAL/OGR and the private S

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

Just thought of some more things: *) The docs need to get updated to talk about the private version of Shapelib. *) Will GDAL/OGR and the private Shapelib both install properly into Xastir at the same time? If not, then we need notes in the Shapelib and GDAL/OGR docs that talk about installing

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > Nod. Do you not see those when you build it the normal way? More than likely, but I only do that once every few years per machine. This compile I'll be doing nearly all the time to test things out. Which reminds me, I need to add it to the RECURSION_TEST

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:57:00PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > I'd appreciate folks trying it out, because while it *should* just build > > everywhere due to the simplicity of the libra

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > I'd appreciate folks trying it out, because while it *should* just build > everywhere due to the simplicity of the library, I have only tested it on > one platform. The only thing I saw so far was a few warnings in the Shapelib code: shpopen.c:184: warni

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:40:50PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:47:54PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > > [on the subject of making sh

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:47:54PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > [on the subject of making shapelib build as a part of xastir's build if it isn't installed] > Unfortunately, that does imply that we'll have to hack on shapelib's m

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:12:30AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > The best approach would be to have a subdirectory that is conditionally > > compiled. We have one such directory now, the

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > The best approach would be to have a subdirectory that is conditionally > compiled. We have one such directory now, the rtree directory. Configure > tests for whether to build that library, and adjusts the makefiles at that > time to either ignore the rtre

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > >Wasn't there already somebody on here that wanted to do an Ubuntu > >flavor? > > Yes, that was me. Wasn't the original intent of this to get Xastir working > for windows users ala vmware player Yes. > If that is the end goal, then I think we should

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

Wasn't there already somebody on here that wanted to do an Ubuntu flavor? Yes, that was me. Wasn't the original intent of this to get Xastir working for windows users ala vmware player or did I misinterpret the original discussion? If that is the end goal, then I think we should focus our effort

Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu Custom CD.

Wow! I've been wanting to do this forever, did you include the latest version of Xastir? I'll definitely give this a try when I get home, what version of Ubuntu is this based off of? 73's Stephen N1VLV btw, Happy Birthday if it's your birthday dinner your going to! On 11/10/06, John Ronan <[EMA

[Xastir] Ubuntu Custom CD.

Evening, I've just finished what should be a custom ubuntu live cd. I've not had a chance to test it and have to head out for a birthday dinner now. http://ireland.aprs2.net/xastir/ubuntu-custom.iso for the brave :) I just realised I never created an Icon on the desktop... so if someone d

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, vic wrote: > Open Suse 10.0 here also > What desktop manager KDE, GNOME, XFCE. etc., etc. > Would want to try and keep the distribution managable, as in not TOO > big...but we have to think about newbies to Linux as well.. I'm a bad one to ask for Window Manager

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

Open Suse 10.0 here also What desktop manager KDE, GNOME, XFCE. etc., etc. Would want to try and keep the distribution managable, as in not TOO big...but we have to think about newbies to Linux as well.. We could have other flavors as well, not just one person working on one particul

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, vic wrote: > > > How do you want to do it? I have both Linux and Windows versions of > > Vmware. Licensed. > > What OS's and what build of Xastir do you want in Player?? > > I would favor Suse but thats just my favorite Linux OS > > S

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Tom Russo wrote: Good lord. Page for Ms. Pandora. I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, else I'd be hosing out my keyboard again. (: If we need to bundle shapelib for some reason (and what was that again?), then we should stop there. IMO

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, vic wrote: > How do you want to do it? I have both Linux and Windows versions of Vmware. > Licensed. > What OS's and what build of Xastir do you want in Player?? > I would favor Suse but thats just my favorite Linux OS > So give me ideas and I may be able to work it out

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

How do you want to do it? I have both Linux and Windows versions of Vmware. Licensed. What OS's and what build of Xastir do you want in Player?? I would favor Suse but thats just my favorite Linux OS So give me ideas and I may be able to work it out Vic n Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:53:44 -0800 (P

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > If we need to bundle shapelib for some reason (and what was that again?), then > we should stop there. > > It might be better to stop before there. We already have a small number of > required libraries -- X11 and Motif --- should we argue that we need to >

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > I thought per the license that vmware player could be freely distrubuted? > Only reason I ask, is that I use a script called Automatix that was built > fro Ubuntu to setup commonly used programs, and vmware player is one of > them. They can't distribu

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:27:35AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > While we're on the subject, could this be extended to any of the > myriad other libraries that we use? Yes. But I would think it would be highly undesirable to do

Re: [Xastir] VMWare Player license

I thought per the license that vmware player could be freely distrubuted? Only reason I ask, is that I use a script called Automatix that was built fro Ubuntu to setup commonly used programs, and vmware player is one of them. They can't distribute vmware server, but they can distribute vmware play

[Xastir] VMWare Player license

There's a distribution license for VMWare Player for anyone considering bundling Xastir and an OS with it: If someone requests permission from them and gets the nod, let us all know on the list please. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client C

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > Keep it as a library, use a local installed version if it's there, build our > own if and only if necessary and link against it statically in that case. > If we keep it in a separate directory, it eases the maintenance headache. I'm game for this. It also

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:09:39AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Developers: What do we think of adding a private copy of Shapelib > to our CVS sources? A bit of a pain in the butt, but probably less of a pain than the alternative

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote: > Not sure how close the near-mythical xastir v2 is (: but if xastir > does go to a GIS-aware postgress or something similar, would that do > away with the need for shapelib support? Or would shapelib become a > core vector format and the GIS db be a s

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > I will also reiterate that iGage All Topo Maps V7 Pro has an "export to > GeoTiff" option that produces geotiff files that are completely compatible > with Xastir --- right down to having usable .fgd files for collar clipping. > Given their special pricing f

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

Not sure how close the near-mythical xastir v2 is (: but if xastir does go to a GIS-aware postgress or something similar, would that do away with the need for shapelib support? Or would shapelib become a core vector format and the GIS db be a supplemental package? Or are these simply ort

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

Looks like Jason's e-mail was private to me, but I don't think I can get him in trouble for posting his comment back to the list! On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote: > works for me. > > I really like the idea if integrating shapelib support directly into > xastir, but then I wouldn't be

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

OGR supports MapInfo. (Mapserver supports MapInfo .map/.tab format). I've not tried MapInfo maps... never even thought about doing that much, but MapInfo is *my* GIS package of choice on Windoze as I can do what I want faster there than with Arc* and can train someone better/faster than I can

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: > So I'm sending this to Henk as well to see where the data originally > came from, therefore whether we can include it in Xastir. It looks > like there's no problem as long as the map data it was derived from > has ok permissions. After comparing WORLDHI.

Re: [Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Steve Friis wrote: > > On 11/9/06, Steve Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Check out the one listed on the old web page called "Worldhi.map". It > >> loads very fast, and even has some color in the lines. I think it is in > >> public domain, but I could be wrong. Would

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:14:42AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote: > > > Well, it so happens that there are already some dbfawk files for the > > TIGER shapefiles written and in place in th

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:11:39AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Precision Mapping and Street Atlas are commercial map programs. No, > we don't and won't support snagging their maps. Their license > doesn't allow it. Pretty mu

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote: > Well, it so happens that there are already some dbfawk files for the > TIGER shapefiles written and in place in the standard xastir > distribution, so you don't really have to start from scratch the way > Tom's tutorials walk you through. He also has

Re: [Xastir] Mapping

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and > Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow use > that data as well if xastir supports it? MapInfo is a GIS program, right? If it's vector data t

Re: [Xastir] 536kb image on home page?

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > I believe it is the image of a 3-d rendering showing an Xastir run on one > side of a cube and a web browser or mail program on another. > > I was thinking something along the lines of what Jason says when I first saw > it. It is a pretty large file and was