Re: [Xastir] Inter-program communication feature request

2008-09-11 Thread Gerry Creager
Areal calculations of irregular geographic areas in, eg., Excel or OOcalc are prone to some errors. However, as an Xastir v2 request, using a spatial database, it'd be easy to get the area of a bounded region or polygon, using the tools already in PostGIS. gerry Eric Germann wrote: Maybe I'v

Re: [Xastir] Inter-program communication feature request

2008-09-10 Thread Eric Germann
Maybe I've been up too long, but couldn't you do this with shapefiles? Take the excel data and render a shapefile, with the shading factors reflecting the POS and have Xastir read the file periodically like it does weather alert shapefiles? EKG N1ICS Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, J

Re: [Xastir] Inter-program communication feature request

2008-09-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Jim Tolbert wrote: For SAR use, there is a spreadsheet application that calculates probability of success of a search in a particular search sector. In Xastir, we can identify the search sectors with the closed polygon which will calculate the area. Is there a way to ha

[Xastir] Inter-program communication feature request

2008-09-10 Thread Jim Tolbert
Hi, all... I am not a programmer, so have no idea how complicated this might be. Anyone interested in taking a look at this? For SAR use, there is a spreadsheet application that calculates probability of success of a search in a particular search sector. In Xastir, we can identify