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

2007-04-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: > On 27/04/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: > > > > > which doesn't really tell me about GPS support. So I am guessing it > > > doesn't. > > > > GPS Support in terms of download waypoi

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

2007-04-27 Thread jdw
Curt, WE7U wrote: > Perhaps he has a permission problem for the serial ports? Could be, but I've never had a permissions problem on a Mac serial port, and I've used 'em 8 at a time. Is there any other application trying to use that serial port for anything? You may want to use /dev/cu.KeySeria

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

2007-04-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: > > >> GPS". So I guess I gotta go build gpsd?! > > You don't have to but it's not really particularly hard. > MacPorts should "just work" for instance. Perhaps he has a permission problem for the serial

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

2007-04-27 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: GPS". So I guess I gotta go build gpsd?! You don't have to but it's not really particularly hard. MacPorts should "just work" for instance. AFAIK the only reason to use GPSd is so you can share the GPS among multiple applications. if you ever us

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] Serial GPS support in Xastir built from Darwin Ports?

2007-04-27 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: Hi all, I have been listening for a while on the list, and managed to get Xastir running nicely (after a fresh install) on my PowerBook (PPC CPU) running Mac OS X 10.4.9 (kernel Darwin 8.9.0 if its important) by installing it from Darwin ports (

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

2007-04-27 Thread Bernard Michael Tyers
Hi Curt, Thanks for the reply. On 27/04/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: > which doesn't really tell me about GPS support. So I am guessing it doesn't. GPS Support in terms of download waypoints/tracks/routes from your GPS, or GPS Sup

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

2007-04-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: > which doesn't really tell me about GPS support. So I am guessing it doesn't. GPS Support in terms of download waypoints/tracks/routes from your GPS, or GPS Support in terms of decoding NMEA sentences? The latter is in there by default. The for

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

2007-04-27 Thread Bernard Michael Tyers
Hi all, I have been listening for a while on the list, and managed to get Xastir running nicely (after a fresh install) on my PowerBook (PPC CPU) running Mac OS X 10.4.9 (kernel Darwin 8.9.0 if its important) by installing it from Darwin ports (following http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Darwi

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-27 Thread Gerry Creager
I'll have to look at the formal Watch By County messages and see what Dale's sending, maybe today. Options would be to take the parallelogram (which I don't think SPC's issuing anymore) and seeing which counties are included. Warnings by polygon will mention affected counties but the vertices

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: > Just a reminder that SVR, TOR and FF watches are now county-based rather > than parallelogram-based, and as of 1 OCT SVR, TOR, FFW and SMW warnings > will be polygon (storm-) based rather than lighting up a whole county. How does that affect us? Are th