Maybe I've been up too long, but couldn't you do this with shapefiles?
Take the excel data and render a shapefile, with the shading factors
reflecting the POS and have Xastir read the file periodically like it
does weather alert shapefiles?
EKG
N1ICS
Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Jim Tolbert wrote:
For SAR use, there is a spreadsheet application that calculates
probability of success of a search in a particular search sector. In
Xastir, we can identify the search sectors with the closed polygon
which will calculate the area.
Is there a way to have Xastir and the OpenOffice Calc / Excel
application exchange the search sector areas and the current
Probability of Success for visual presentation?
That is, the operator would set up the search sector in Xastir using
predefined sector names. Xastir would calculate the area of the
sector and write those area values to the proper field in the
spreadsheet.
The operator would then perform the calculations in the spreadsheet
and update the POS for that sector. The spreadsheet would then send
the updated POS values to the note field of the sector for display in
Xastir.
A step further would be to shade the sector based on the current POS.
I know _exactly_ what you're talking about, although there are
several ways of doing the calculations via various spreadsheets or
via stand-alone programs.
Tom knows the methods you're talking about to calculate POS/POD
also.
If you look at the Feature Request tracker for the Xastir project
you'll see that the segments were intended to be a step in that
direction, and that there are other feature requests along those
lines as well. Do a search through the requests using the string
"SAR".
Now that you'll know some of the direction were headed back then,
let's talk about the direction we're headed now: Xastir-NG (Xastir
Next Generation).
On the sourceforge.net/projects/xastir set of pages is a Wiki.
We're using that Wiki and the Xastir-Dev mailing list to discuss the
Xastir-NG project. Anyone with requirements or ideas for directions
we should go should add to the Use Cases on that Wiki and get
subscribed to the -Dev mailing list to make your needs known to the
developers. We really need to get that project rolling as we've
been talking about it for way too long with little action. I'd
rather put fresh energy into the new project than keep patching up
the old, although at times that can be a nice diversion as well.
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