Re: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Brad Douglas
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 > stup

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Stephen - K1LNX
> 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 Xasti

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Gerry Creager
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

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Gerry Creager
o: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]On > Behalf Of Andrew Rich > Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 11:16 AM > To: Stephen - K1LNX; Curt Mills, WE7U > Cc: Xastir User mailing lis

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Brad Douglas
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 n

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread James Ewen
On 8/25/07, Stephen - K1LNX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first thoughts on implementation for this would be some kind of scraping > method maybe? I certainly wouldn't want to abuse Google's servers, but what > about passing static strings with the positional as a standard http request > and then

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Stephen - K1LNX
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Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Gerry Creager
ch 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 ? -

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Gerry Creager
ROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen - K1LNX 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

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-25 Thread Gerry Creager
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. gerry Stephen - K1LNX wrote: That would be *AWESOME* Per

RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Rich
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf 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

RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Rich
ED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen - K1LNX 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...

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-24 Thread Stephen - K1LNX
That would be *AWESOME* Perhaps my overloaded brain and willingness to learn may start towards this.. umm yea right lol tnx and 73's Stephen K1LNX On 8/24/07, Curt, WE7U < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: > > > One question to the dev's. Is it pos

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: > One question to the dev's. Is it possible to integrate google maps into > Xastir? It's been talked about. Gerry Creager did some asking of the Google guys and they said something to the effect of: "Yes, please use it!". Just need a developer with a

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-22 Thread Lee Bengston
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 cre

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-22 Thread Stephen - K1LNX
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 ch

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-22 Thread Lee Bengston
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

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-22 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: What is the difference between the Polygons and Polylines directory, if any? polygons are area features - lakes, golf courses, city boundaries, etc. Lines are linear features like roads, stream, railroads, etc. What file or files do I

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-22 Thread Tom Russo
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 correspon

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-13 Thread Jason Winningham
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 wh

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-13 Thread Bernard Michael Tyers
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 you

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-13 Thread Stephen - K1LNX
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 directories I see (I'll use my home county as an example): /usr/l

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Jason Winningham
On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: What is the limitation on this? Is it something that can't be coded in? Hard/complex? Just curious I suspect it's a limitation of the linestyles available in Xlib without resorting to a) heavy coding, or b) adding yet another suppor

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
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 r

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Douglas
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

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Friis
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 cove

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Stephen - K1LNX
> 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.

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Jason Winningham
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? Impossible?

Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Douglas
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