Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > There is no email address listed for that call sign on qrz. > > If you have an address for him, could you drop him a note? wxsvr.net is not > browseable. Found three in my archives. I'll send him a note and hope that at least one of them is still good.

Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Tom Russo
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:04:58AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Unfortunately, the multline protocol might not help you there, either --- I > > have no idea how widely implemented it is

Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > Unfortunately, the multline protocol might not help you there, either --- I > have no idea how widely implemented it is in other clients, and as you point > out, the wxsvr.net web site where the protocol is documented (and which > lists the clients that su

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 20 May 2008, William McKeehan wrote: > The group that I work with on most events uses a variety of APRS clients. We > have UI-View, Xastir, WinAPRS, APRS+SA and AGWTracker. Developing maps (and > getting them e-mailed before the event) is a painful task, especially when the > maps change

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Bob Donnell wrote: > If you don't have time to put Tom's method to work, you could think about > what I do for the Seattle Marathon route: I took a bitmap copy of the > Marathon map, added the georeference information to a .geo file for it, and > set Xastir up to load it "ab

Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-20 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > The group that I work with on most events uses a variety of APRS clients. We > have UI-View, Xastir, WinAPRS, APRS+SA and AGWTracker. Developing maps (and > getting t

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 20 May 2008, William McKeehan wrote: > If I had a way to transmit the maps, then > anyone interested could see them regardless of which APRS client they are > using and without any need to send them via another route before the event. I'm not sure there's enough consistency in the various

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-20 Thread William McKeehan
Does anyone have a pointer to the spec for the multiline objects? The link that I have appears defunct: http://www.wxsvr.net/APRS_Multiline_Protocol.html -- William McKeehan KI4HDU http://mckeehan.homeip.net ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-20 Thread William McKeehan
x27;t have to take the chance that a mistake in reconfiguration puts > that tracker off the air. > > Hope that's food for thought. > > 73, Bob, KD7NM > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of William McKeehan >

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-20 Thread Bob Donnell
ROTECTED] On Behalf Of William McKeehan Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:10 AM To: xastir@xastir.org Subject: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ? If my memory is correct, there is some method to send area "shapes" with APRS. I've got it in my mind that firenet sends something like this for

Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-16 Thread Tom Russo
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:10:19PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > If my memory is correct, there is some method to send area "shapes" with APRS. > I've got it in my mind that firenet sends something like this for weather > data. > >

[Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-16 Thread William McKeehan
If my memory is correct, there is some method to send area "shapes" with APRS. I've got it in my mind that firenet sends something like this for weather data. I was wondering, is it possible to use similar techniques to transmit a shapefile? Specifically, I have a bicycle route for an upcoming eve