On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Steve Friis wrote: > I noticed that when speech is activated with "tracked station", the > proximity alerts enumerate how close the tracked station is in relation > to every other station within the distance parameter. This seems like an > awful waste of resources and very annoying. My thought is that I would > only want this station to tell me where it is at in relation to me. I > could care less where it is at in relation to each weather station, > mobile on the highway, base station and digipeater. Am I wrong or > missing some point?
I believe this feature was added to support a particular event. Memory is fuzzy, but I think it might have been the NYC Marathon or similar. The idea was that they could listen to the speech instead of having to watch the map to know where each tracker was in relation to each checkpoint along the course. -- Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
