Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Russo
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:00:13PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: Hi all, I thought I read in some docs that in Xastir you can draw CAD object on a map and then transmit them to other Xastir stations. But the help window

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Craig Anderson wrote: I thought I read in some docs that in Xastir you can draw CAD object on a map and then transmit them to other Xastir stations. But the help window just said no. I'm looking at 1.8.4 currently. Can Xastir transmit CAD objects? The

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Craig Anderson
That would be hugely useful to me. The ability to create a coordinated, distributed, common operating picture for a search rescue effort. Like NetMeeting for SR. Could I talk someone into that? :-) Craig On May 16, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Tom Russo wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:00:13PM

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Craig Anderson wrote: That would be hugely useful to me. The ability to create a coordinated, distributed, common operating picture for a search rescue effort. Like NetMeeting for SR. Could I talk someone into that? :-) Well, I think Tom and I are the ones that are

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Gerry Creager
If via radio, SQL is wordy, but well-known text. The results are not. Especially for a spatially-enabled database. That said, it'd be do-able. IMNSHO. gerry Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Craig Anderson wrote: That would be hugely useful to me. The ability to create a

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Russo
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:44:35PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Craig Anderson wrote: That would be hugely useful to me. The ability to create a coordinated, distributed, common operating picture for a

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Tom Russo wrote: Aren't multipoint objects already in the standard? Kind'a sort'a. I think Bob B. mentions the protocol in one of his addendums. Or at rather, aren't the multipoint objects supported by more than just Xastir? Yes. For weather uses only at present, but

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Russo
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:38:03PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Tom Russo wrote: Aren't multipoint objects already in the standard? Kind'a sort'a. I think Bob B. mentions the protocol in one of his

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Tom Russo wrote: Make two objects at the centroid of the area: one with the attributes in the status text, the other with the multiline data in the status text. Wouldn't require a spec change, and would display on any client that parses multiline objects. Seems like a

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Craig Anderson
I'm approaching this from the perspective of the balloon recovery effort I helped with last weekend. What I did was virtually the same as all Civil Air Patrol searches and probably a good portion of normal SR operations. An airplane and a number of ground search teams where you can't physically

Re: [Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

2007-05-16 Thread Jason Winningham
On May 16, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Craig Anderson wrote: That APRS channel could be co-resident with a TCP/IP over AX.25 KISS channel that I suppose could really be carrying the CAD objects. TCP/IP is a connected mode point to point protocol, not really suitable for one-to-many communications.