Hi Jason,
You are exactly right. All the functionality to do
what you want is there, it just isn't easily accessible.
Xastir needs a better "layering" mechanism. The
ability to turn on or off map (and object) layers more
easily than the "Map Chooser" and the
"View"->"Mobile Stations" etc.
Now, do I have the capacity to do this? no.
Sorry. Very sorry.
Craig
On Jan 28, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
A recent post to the APRSSIG (about usefulness to EOC type users)
got me
thinking, and I wonder if we would be better served by a different
way to
select the stations displayed on the map? I would imagine this
would be
most useful for special events operations.
The basic idea would be to allow the user to select/deselect
_any_type of
station for viewing based on station type, so for example, if one
wanted to
see only WX, fire trucks, and ambulances, the view could be reduced
to that.
I guess the simplest interface would be a grid of icons, pretty much
exactly
like the one that allows you to choose your station icon, that would
allow
the user to select which type of stations would be displayed. Maybe
refinements could be the ability to display full data (as currently
selected
for callsign/speed/heading/age/wx data/etc), icon only, or no
display, would
be useful (haven't thought so much about that one).
I'm not too sure I've formulated the idea to well, so I thought I'd
throw it
out here before I formulated a feature request.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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