August 2007 11:16 AM
To: Stephen - K1LNX; Curt Mills, WE7U
Cc: Xastir User mailing list
Subject: RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
So what do we need to do ?
Learn about google map API's ?
Andrew Rich VK4TEC
Of Andrew Rich
Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 11:16 AM
To: Stephen - K1LNX; Curt Mills, WE7U
Cc: Xastir User mailing list
Subject: RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
So what do we need to do ?
Learn about google map API's
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 06:47 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote:
Near as I could tell, it's not on Google's horizon but they're amenable
to almost any non-terrorist use of Google Maps||Earth.
I've looked at this a couple of times lately but I'm pure outta cycles
and interrupt processing right now.
Mills, WE7U
Cc: Xastir User mailing list
Subject: RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
So what do we need to do ?
Learn about google map API's
The first is a hold-harmless: They don't want to be responsible for
stupid user tricks when you use Google Earth in a manner they can't
prove is safe.
The second is to allow them and their license-holders the right and
opportunity to see hard-copy output in large volumes.
I've discussed the
I've discussed the first with them directly. They're intrigued by Xastir
(and APRS in general) and see it not as a violation. Even if used in your
car.
All the more reason to spawn development!
What would you want to scrape? I'd make the data available as a network
option from within
My apologies. I didn't realize random Google employees trump legal
documents their high paid lawyers so tediously put together.
That's just me, though. YMMV. ;-)
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 19:00 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote:
The first is a hold-harmless: They don't want to be responsible for
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Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 10:31 AM
To: Curt Mills, WE7U
Cc: Xastir User mailing list
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
That would be *AWESOME*
Perhaps my overloaded brain and willingness to learn may start towards
this.. umm yea right
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:00:29AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing:
I do have one question on the downloaded Tiger data. When I unzipped
Tennessee for example, it created two directories, Polygons and Polylines.
In the corresponding
On 8/10/07, Stephen - K1LNX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That looks pretty good and gives me an idea of what to start with.
I do have one question on the downloaded Tiger data. When I unzipped
Tennessee for example, it created two directories, Polygons and Polylines.
In the corresponding
Thanks for all the replies so far guys. I'd be lieing if I pretended to
actually understand this whole mapping thing lol, but like anything else I
just need to dig my heels into it. I have some MapInfo map data as well that
I may try playing with, I'll report my results back on both when I get a
On 8/13/07, Lee Bengston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/10/07, Stephen - K1LNX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That looks pretty good and gives me an idea of what to start with.
I do have one question on the downloaded Tiger data. When I unzipped
Tennessee for example, it created two
On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
Can I ask how you created/plotted the grey dotted rectangular box on
the map? I am guessing its the search area of that particular
aircraft?
That is the position ambiguity for that APRS station, which is in
fact an aircraft. For
http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw/xastir/box-snapshot.png
light green is background, blue is water, dark green is parks/refuges/
forests, black lines are highways, red lines are interstates/
controlled access roads, dashed lines are railroads, yellow areas are
city limits.
=
Hi,
Can I ask how
I downloaded the Tiger 2006 data from
ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/TIGER_2006_SE/for Tennesse to start with. I
got it to display just fine, but still leaves
me with one question, how to make it look better? I know I can adjust the
fonts, background color etc, but what I am really after is to have a
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 13:20 -0400, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
I downloaded the Tiger 2006 data from
ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/TIGER_2006_SE/for Tennesse to start with. I
got it to display just fine, but still leaves
me with one question, how to make it look better? I know I can adjust the
fonts,
On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
but still leaves
me with one question, how to make it look better? I know I can
adjust the
fonts, background color etc, but what I am really after is to have
a color
scheme ala Google maps with colored roads etc.
Easy? Hard?
Which google maps? Colored roads based on road type or colored based on
traffic?
Colored roads based on road type, not interested in traffic.
One thing that you'll probably find missing is a selection of linestyles -
xastir's is pretty limited. IIRC you've got solid lines and dashed lines.
Brad Douglas wrote:
PS -
At this weekend's Linux Picnic[1], I'll be releasing some new maps to
the public. I've created TOPOs with 500' contours and shaded relief
(and colored by elevation) pesudo-DEMs to go under the TOPOs to make
them highly visible. The data is broken down by county and
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:34 -0600, Steve Friis wrote:
Brad Douglas wrote:
PS -
At this weekend's Linux Picnic[1], I'll be releasing some new maps to
the public. I've created TOPOs with 500' contours and shaded relief
(and colored by elevation) pesudo-DEMs to go under the TOPOs to make
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Brad Douglas wrote:
BTW, I tried loading up 30' contours into Xastir. Bad idea. ;-)
Doesn't that depend on the size of the area you're looking at? If
I'm on a SAR mission I might want 30' contours for a smallish area.
If driving or other uses, probably not.
One thing to
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