Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Tom Tessier wrote: > Oops, sorry Curt, I see that your point is that you DIDN'T want the whole > country in one shot!! OKI see someone fixed the mapping between position > coordinate and picking the map to get. Yea, you can either download the whole shebang onto your hardd

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Tom Tessier
Oops, sorry Curt, I see that your point is that you DIDN'T want the whole country in one shot!! OKI see someone fixed the mapping between position coordinate and picking the map to get. -Tom de VE4TRT - Original Message - From: "Tom Tessier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Curt Mills, WE7U"

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Tom Tessier
Hi Curt, HmmmI thought I wrote that routine a couple years ago and included it in the sources. It used to grab the whole set. In fact, I found errors in their maps designations on Elesmere Island. -Tom - Original Message - From: "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Tessier" <[EM

Re: [Xastir] Davis software install

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Friis
Yup, that was it. The demon wasn't starting on start-up. I fixed that, and now mysql starts up. Now on to the rest of the set-up. Z Curt Mills wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve wrote: I am trying to get working the Davis Vantage Pro2 so that I can post the local WX conditions on the net.

[Xastir] vmplayer

2007-02-09 Thread Peter Maxfield
Just wanted to give everyone an update. I have installed vmplayer and the preconfigured xubuntu/xastir machine. Finally remembered how to set up all the variables in Xastir. Performed the change to openmotiff without issue. I've also tried to do a cvs update, which I think was successful (it sti

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Dimse wrote: > Actually that is not the way I work. I spent a lot of time understanding the > way they did it, once I started coding it worked as soon as I fixed a couple > of syntax errors. That is why I don't think the code will help you. If you did > a straight transla

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Dimse wrote: > Yes, I think that is the only way to do it. Even a two by two pixel map could > (in the extreme case) require loading of four different (and large) tiles, > could xastir handle that directly? Nope. Our code's stupid. It want's one image and one image onl

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Dimse wrote: > Just to prove the point that it would not be easier, here is the toporama > cgi... I can understand much of it, but the math is sure thugly! We could toss the DBI stuff 'cuz we don't do it by callsign, but the rest would be necessary. That math is about

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Dimse wrote: > Frankly, if you want to add this to your code and have any hope of maintaining > it, you would be better to go to the Toporama documentation and write your own > code rather than trying to convert my uncommented Perl to C! Yep, figured that out. I _am_ a

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Curt Mills wrote: > Any chance of getting the algorithm for the Toporama CGI so that we > could generate the .geo's ourselves? We'd still be snagging the > actual map images from your server, but if that became a problem in > the future we could come up with our own server for

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Tom ve7did wrote: > I see the on-line Canada maps are humming again. Thx to whoever fixed it. Steve Dimse. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: M

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Tom ve7did
I see the on-line Canada maps are humming again. Thx to whoever fixed it. ...73 Tom On Wednesday 07 February 2007 21:00, Curt Mills wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Curt Mills wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff Brower wrote: > > > I have the same problem on my Mac and on a Kubuntu build. Like you,

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve Dimse wrote: > I found the problem and should have it fixed now, it was a problem with names > resolving to different servers. Thanks. Had to change our sources back to what they were yesterday. The CVS commit is happening now. Any chance of getting the algorithm for t

Re: [Xastir] Davis software install

2007-02-09 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Steve wrote: > I am trying to get working the Davis Vantage Pro2 so that I can post the local > WX conditions on the net. Following the instructions in the README file, I > installed the mysql software. When I try to run mysql however, I get the > following error... > > ERROR

[Xastir] Davis software install

2007-02-09 Thread Steve
I am trying to get working the Davis Vantage Pro2 so that I can post the local WX conditions on the net. Following the instructions in the README file, I installed the mysql software. When I try to run mysql however, I get the following error... ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL