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

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Tolbert
I apologize in advance for the dumb questions and know that this is probably covered somewhere, but I have been unable to find it. Could some one give me directions to a recipe, or give me a recipe, to get this working? From a laptop at a ground search incident command, I would like to track

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] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 07:47:23AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ray Wells wrote: > > > > > >> I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out > >> how ecw for

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Ray Wells
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ray Wells wrote: I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out how ecw format maps invoked in xastir? gdalinfo --formats now reports ecw support so it would seem that part of proceedings is now up to scratch. We don't

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:02:44PM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out how > ecw format maps invoked in xastir? They can't. ECW maps are rasters. Nobody has eve

Re: [Xastir] newbie question...

2007-06-25 Thread Chuck Byam
On 6/25/07 3:37 PM, "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Rick Bolen (HM) wrote: > >> Is there a search engine for the archives? It's time consuming to try and >> drill through the archives month-by-month to research a question\issue. > > You might use Google instead. J

Re: [Xastir] Weather maps are now black

2007-06-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: > The real distressing problem here is, we don't change anything and the > background changes. We have a cron-job that always runs the same code > the same way, every 2 minutes. We flog the out of it and the CPU > and create several different format

Re: [Xastir] Build issues

2007-06-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, James Ewen wrote: > So, I'm back at it again... having problems with building Xastir on Cygwin. I don't have a way to test Cygwin installs anymore, so someone else will have to help you this time. > Running update-xastir, I see there's a problem with permissions in > updati

Re: [Xastir] Weather maps are now black

2007-06-25 Thread Gerry Creager
The real distressing problem here is, we don't change anything and the background changes. We have a cron-job that always runs the same code the same way, every 2 minutes. We flog the out of it and the CPU and create several different formats. The GIF format is the native output. I'll

Re: [Xastir] newbie question...

2007-06-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Rick Bolen (HM) wrote: > Is there a search engine for the archives? It's time consuming to try and > drill through the archives month-by-month to research a question\issue. You might use Google instead. Just add in part or all of the list information in the query between quo

Re: [Xastir] APRS packet building

2007-06-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Corby Krick wrote: > Okay... so if I do NOT include the -to_rf and -to_inet... would the > object then display on my Xastir screen but not ever be transmitted? Depends. If you send it with a different callsign and/or SSID than the running Xastir instance, then I believe that

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ray Wells wrote: > I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out > how ecw format maps invoked in xastir? > > gdalinfo --formats now reports ecw support so it would seem that part of > proceedings is now up to scratch. We don't support everything tha

Re: [Xastir] APRS packet building

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Shorney
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:32:30 -0500, Corby Krick wrote: >what I >don't understand is what the APRS packet should look like. I'll need >the name, coordinates, icon, and comments, but I don't know how to >build the packet. Can anyone give me any insight? Corby, The APRS Spec 1.01 document is

Re: [Xastir] APRS packet building

2007-06-25 Thread Corby Krick
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Corby Krick wrote: I'm looking into making a script that'll send out objects once again, using xastir_udp_client. I understand the login sequence, but what I don't understand is what the APRS packet should look like. I'll need the name, coordinates, ico

[Xastir] Maps

2007-06-25 Thread Ray Wells
I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out how ecw format maps invoked in xastir? gdalinfo --formats now reports ecw support so it would seem that part of proceedings is now up to scratch. Any advice gratefully received. Ray vk2tv _

[Xastir] newbie question...

2007-06-25 Thread Rick Bolen \(HM\)
Hello all. I'm new to the list. I've used APRS for several years and have poked around some linux code, but I'm new to using Xastir. Q1: Is there a search engine for the archives? It's time consuming to try and drill through the archives month-by-month to research a question\issue. Q2: Has anyone

Re: [Xastir] Weather map question

2007-06-25 Thread Lee Bengston
On 6/19/07, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The cool thing is that if you select, say, only the color brown, then only the pixels that contain contour lines will be drawn, and anything you have in a lower map level will show through. This allows you to overlay the USGS's contour lines on t

[Xastir] APRS packet building

2007-06-25 Thread Corby Krick
I'm looking into making a script that'll send out objects once again, using xastir_udp_client. I understand the login sequence, but what I don't understand is what the APRS packet should look like. I'll need the name, coordinates, icon, and comments, but I don't know how to build the packet

Re: [Xastir] APRS packet building

2007-06-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Corby Krick wrote: > I'm looking into making a script that'll send out objects once again, > using xastir_udp_client. I understand the login sequence, but what I > don't understand is what the APRS packet should look like. I'll need > the name, coordinates, icon, and comments,

[Xastir] Build issues

2007-06-25 Thread James Ewen
So, I'm back at it again... having problems with building Xastir on Cygwin. Running update-xastir, I see there's a problem with permissions in updating files Merging differences between 1.11 and 1.12 into update-xastir cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file .new.update-xastir to update-xastir: