Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Russo
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:55:02PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > Or create new GNIS files somehow? > > > Well, you're one of the developers, so you tell me if it makes more

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: > - create new GNIS files in the old format with new data (assuming > that's possible) Probably the worst option. > - re-code so that xastir understands the new GNIS format Better. > - convert the GNIS files to shapefiles, and abandon the GNIS supp

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Or create new GNIS files somehow? Well, you're one of the developers, so you tell me if it makes more sense to: - create new GNIS files in the old format with new data (assuming that's possible) - re-code so that xastir understands the ne

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread jdw
Curt, WE7U wrote: > This should probably go in as a togglebutton at some point. how feasible/useful is it for stuff like this to be configurable from the config file, but not actually have a GUI tie-in? Would it help features get into the code a little more quickly if it could be done by editin

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how feasible/useful is it for stuff like this to be configurable from the > config file, but not actually have a GUI tie-in? Would it help features > get into the code a little more quickly if it could be done by editing the > config file manually? A

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jeremy Utley wrote: > > I've found that for online tigermap, setting map intensity to 60% and > > changing the station text style to text on black makes it much easier to > > read. > > > > Ryan, KB0JQO > > That's MUCH better! I never knew about those options before, and > you'

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Jeremy Utley
On 7/6/07, Ryan Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:56 -0700, Jeremy Utley wrote: > There's one minor thing that has always bugged me with Xastir - don't > know if anyone else has ever encountered this - but at least on my > screen (which I run at 1600x1200x24bit), the call

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Ryan Butler
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:56 -0700, Jeremy Utley wrote: > There's one minor thing that has always bugged me with Xastir - don't > know if anyone else has ever encountered this - but at least on my > screen (which I run at 1600x1200x24bit), the callsigns next to each > name are VERY hard to read - is

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jeremy Utley wrote: > There's one minor thing that has always bugged me with Xastir - don't > know if anyone else has ever encountered this - but at least on my > screen (which I run at 1600x1200x24bit), the callsigns next to each > name are VERY hard to read - is there any way

[Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Jeremy Utley
Hey guys! I thought I'd point out that I just managed to get a successful build of Xastir on my new Fedora 7 64-bit desktop system - I did not bother with GPSMan or GDAL/OGR, and used the proj and shapelib packages from the Fedora repositories - the only thing I installed from source was libgeoti