Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Weewx

[Lee Bengston]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:08 PM Clint Heffner  wrote:

> See the wxnowsrv.pl script. You question prompted me to dig into what
> wxnow.txt was, and a half hour later I have it working.
>
> I'm running the script on a pi in my barn connected to a peetbros wx
> station.
>
> Then xastir on a pi in the shack connects to it like a wx server.
>
> Clint -- KF8MZ
>
> I thought Peetbros was one of the weather stations Xastir supports
natively - or were you already leveraging that before trying out the script?
  Alternatively pehaps the script is the best or only way to make it work
between two different Pi's?  (The weather station on one, and Xastir on the
other?)

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Re: [Xastir] Vehicle Android Computer

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 7:50 PM David Flood  wrote:

> Hello Ed,
>
> I don't think that anyone has packaged and submitted Xastir to the Google
> App Store.
>
> The only Android APRS app I'm aware of is APRSDroid.  I use it in Internet
> mode on my phone occasionally but don't know if it will connect to a radio
> or not.
>

Fyi, for Android, there's also APRSISMO.  It supports connections to either
bluetooth enabled radios (with built-in TNC's) or other TNC's or radios
with integrated TNC's via bluetooth to serial adapters.

http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net/APRSISMO/*

I believe TestHost.apk is the latest development version, which can be
found in that directory.

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Re: [Xastir] ATTENTION: Preparing for next release: Please thrash on the code

[Lee Bengston]

I've played with it some and and have not found any issues. I put together
a BPQ packet node in January, and I haven't fully back-filled what I had
"stolen" from aprs, so testing capability is fairly limited.  From what I
can tell, though, it's nice and stable.

I do have a few questions about the source ( yeah, always one in the crowd
:-) )

- In dlm.c noticed references to "curl-multi" and evidently the capability
to leverage parallel downloading of map tiles as supported by libcurl. Is
whether or not that is supported in our platform based on what version of
curl is installed?

- now that dlm.c handles downloading tiles, is there anything left in
tile_mgmnt.c that is still needed or could tile_mgmnt.h and tile_mgmnt.c be
removed?  It seems at a minimum the "getOneTile" portion of tile_mgmnt.c is
no longer needed.

Looks like you guys are doing a lot of cleanup in this release, so brought
that up just in case there's some stuff there that could be streamlined a
bit.

Fyi, my Odroid XU4 (arm based) beats the pants off my Intel Celeron based
laptop in terms of map download speed.  Both are on Ubuntu 18.04 with the
MATE desktop. Am wondering if the fact that the XU4 has an octa-core cpu
makes a difference with respect to curl-multi.

The cleaner compiling is very noticeable, and the earlier note about newer
compilers spitting out more warnings matches what I saw.  Compiling is
cleaner in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu 16.04 than it is in Ubuntu 18.04, but
it still builds fine.  (And even in Ubuntu 18.04 the new code still
compiles a lot cleaner that the older code did)

Thanks,

Lee
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On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM Curt Mills  wrote:

> We're planning to do a release within a few weeks. It might be as few as 2
> weeks.
>
> Please check out / compile / thrash on the latest Github Xastir code. Find
> anything that broke with our latest code fixes. Exercise all types of
> interfaces, messaging, bulletins, weather stations, tracking, following
> stations, maps, etc. Anything you can think of.
>
> The latest code compiles much cleaner and a lot of fixes went in to make
> that possible. We'd like this release to function well, so whatever you can
> do to exercise the code would be most appreciated.
>
> If you find a bug or odd operation, report it here:
>
>   https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues
>
> Thanks!
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Re: [Xastir] A few changes

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, May 8, 2019, 12:18 PM Tom Russo  wrote:

> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 11:17:49AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
> > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:33 PM Tom Russo  wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:20:12PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > > collision of the  flavor, containing:
> > > > A little late to this thread, sorry.  Did a clean install on a
> relatively
> > > > new Odroid XU4 on Ubuntu 18.04. Seems to be fine, and no error
> messages
> > > in
> > > > the terminal.  "Help About" gave me the detailed release number as
> > > expected.
> > > >
> > > > Noticed the Nationalmap.gov onine maps are still broken.  I have
> some new
> > > > nationalmap.gov geos I can share that do work - no code changes
> > > required -
> > > > just new geo files with updated WMS links.  Will follow up with those
> > > given
> > > > they can't be attached to messages on this list.
> > >
> > > If you could do it via a pull request it will be easier to handle than
> > > by posting on the mailing list.  It'd be great to update the borken
> > > geos.
> >
> >
> > Pull request completed.
>
> No, you opened a pull request and then closed it before we did anything
> with
> it.  Made it look like you changed your mind about it.  If you go ahead
> and reopen the pull request we can check it out and then merge it.
>

Ok, first one I've ever done. By closing it I thought that just meant I was
done adding the comment. It has been reopened.

Thanks,
Lee


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Re: [Xastir] A few changes

[Lee Bengston]

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:33 PM Tom Russo  wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:20:12PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
> > A little late to this thread, sorry.  Did a clean install on a relatively
> > new Odroid XU4 on Ubuntu 18.04. Seems to be fine, and no error messages
> in
> > the terminal.  "Help About" gave me the detailed release number as
> expected.
> >
> > Noticed the Nationalmap.gov onine maps are still broken.  I have some new
> > nationalmap.gov geos I can share that do work - no code changes
> required -
> > just new geo files with updated WMS links.  Will follow up with those
> given
> > they can't be attached to messages on this list.
>
> If you could do it via a pull request it will be easier to handle than
> by posting on the mailing list.  It'd be great to update the borken
> geos.


Pull request completed.

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Re: [Xastir] A few changes

[Lee Bengston]

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:33 PM Tom Russo  wrote:

> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:20:12PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
> > A little late to this thread, sorry.  Did a clean install on a relatively
> > new Odroid XU4 on Ubuntu 18.04. Seems to be fine, and no error messages
> in
> > the terminal.  "Help About" gave me the detailed release number as
> expected.
> >
> > Noticed the Nationalmap.gov onine maps are still broken.  I have some new
> > nationalmap.gov geos I can share that do work - no code changes
> required -
> > just new geo files with updated WMS links.  Will follow up with those
> given
> > they can't be attached to messages on this list.
>
> If you could do it via a pull request it will be easier to handle than
> by posting on the mailing list.  It'd be great to update the borken
> geos.
>
> Will look at that tomorrow. Didn't catch up to this message until after I
> sent the one with the link to the zip file.  In the meantime people can try
> out the geo files...


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[Xastir] National Map Geo Files

[Lee Bengston]

http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/NM-geos.zip

I put these in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/nationalmap.gov and
removed the existing ones.

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Re: [Xastir] A few changes

[Lee Bengston]

A little late to this thread, sorry.  Did a clean install on a relatively
new Odroid XU4 on Ubuntu 18.04. Seems to be fine, and no error messages in
the terminal.  "Help About" gave me the detailed release number as expected.

Noticed the Nationalmap.gov onine maps are still broken.  I have some new
nationalmap.gov geos I can share that do work - no code changes required -
just new geo files with updated WMS links.  Will follow up with those given
they can't be attached to messages on this list.

Lee K5DAT

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Re: [Xastir] Help needed with proj library compatibility

[Lee Bengston]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 10:03 AM Tom Russo  wrote:

> There is a simpler way for me to address this issue, but I need some input
> from the Xastir user community.
>
> The easiest possible way to address this is to remove GDAL and OGR support
> from
> Xastir altogether.  That would remove the need to have a copy of
> GTIFProj4FromLatLong in map_tif at all (because that copy exists SOLELY to
> deconflict libgeotiff and libgdal's two versions of the same function),
> and I
> believe it would have minimal impact on any existing users.
>
> GDAL and OGR support was added to Xastir back around 2005, with the intent
> of
> using its vast capability to support many more map types than had
> previously
> been supported in Xastir.  But this support never really reached its
> potential,
> and almost no GDAL raster support ever got written.  Only OGR vector map
> support was developed, and it never reached the level of support that the
> completely separate shapelib code had --- that is, while the shapelib
> driver allows you to control Xastir's rendering of shapefiles using
> DBFAWK,
> you can't control Xastir's rendering of OGR-supported vector files
> except by hand-editing the map_ogr.c file and hacking in special purpose
> code.
>
> I do not believe *anybody* actually uses these obscure map types in Xastir,
> and some of them are not even available anymore (such as the old
> topological
> format TIGER/LINE data or the SDTS files from USGS).  The complete list of
> data types that *could* be rendered wtih OGR in the existing code are:
>.ddf   USGS SDTS vector files
>.rt1   US Census Tiger/Line
>.s57   International Hydrographic Organization S-57 files
>.tab   ]
>.mid   ]  MapINFO files
>.mif   ]
>.dgn   Microstation DGN format
>
> Wow, I used Microstation back in the early 90's at work. Definitely don't
use any of the files above with Xastir.


> Many other map types *could* have been implemented, but only these were.
>
> So the question is, is anyone actually using any of these map types in
> their
> Xastir work, or is the GDAL/OGR code in fact just code bloat that is
> causing
> problems now?
>
> Removing the GDAL/OGR code and the handful of obsolete shapelib "contrib"
> programs that use proj.4 would completely solve the future incompatibility
> with the proj library.
>
> Note that the programs that come with gdal are still all very useful, but
> are not directly used by Xastir.  If you have been using tools like
> gdalwarp
> or ogr2ogr to convert map data into formats that Xastir understands
> natively,
> that would remain the best approach and would not be impacted if I were to
> remove all GDAL/OGR support from Xastir.
>

Yes, I use gdalwarp but do not need any of the functionality of the
GDAL/OGR code that was implemented in Xastir.
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Re: [Xastir] KPC-3+ USB connection

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:18 AM Terry & Marc Gillespie 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is my first request for help with Xastir. I have done research on
> this problem but there’s a good chance that I have missed something in the
> documentation and FAQs.
>
> I am new to Linux but I have been a hobbyist in the DOS/Windows area for
> years. I was able to set up Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and compiled Xastir V2.1.1.
> I purchased a KPC-3+ USB version TNC. My xastir program doesn’t seem to
> see RF contacts. Under View>Incoming Data, the program shows a continuous
> stream from the Internet but nothing from RF with either "TNC Data only” or
> “TNC and Net Data” selected. I installed minicom and see multiple contacts
> from the KPC on port /dev/ttyUSB0. I used the Interface>Interface Control
> to add the Internet Server and Serial TNC. I entered "/dev/ttyUSB0" in the
> TNC Port and used “tnc-startup.kpc3” in the TNC Setup Filename.
>

You may want to read the comments in the startup script files located in
/usr/local/share/xastir/config
The more generic tnc-startup.sys might be a better fit.

>
> In the Interface Control window Device 0 (Internet Server) shows UP but
> Device 1 (Serial TNC) shows DOWN. In the documentation that I have read I
> missed an explanation of what the UP and DOWN words are trying to tell me.
> Can someone help me get the RF contacts recognized or direct me toward more
> documentation that will help me better understand what I need to do to
> solve this problem?
>
> If you launch Xastir from a terminal, then try to start the interface from
Interface Control, do you see an error message in the terminal?  First
thought is your username might not be a member of the dialout group and
doesn't have permission to open the port.  I do note you were able to
access it with minicom, though.

Another option would be to manually put the TNC in Kiss mode and create a
serial Kiss TNC interface in Xastir.  With that setup I don't think you
would need a startup or shutdown file referenced in the interface
configuration.  If desired I believe you could also create your own startup
files that would put the TNC in Kiss mode to start and take it out when
exiting.

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Re: [Xastir] Start upon Bootup

[Lee Bengston]

I have auto-started programs in LXDE before by editing the following file:
(If the file is not there, it can be created new)

/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/startup

Then add a line such as

@/usr/local/bin/xastir

Use the actual location of the Xastir executable - or call a shell script
that launches Xastir.

It just dawned on me that the above might run as root, and if so, Ken's
method is better.

Lee - K5DAT


On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 10:56 AM Ken Koster  On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:58:43 AM PST Jim Darrough wrote:
> > I've seen this mentioned a few times, but I need to get current and
> > appropriate input on how to start Xastir upon boot of the RPi.
>
> For a program like Xastir that has a GUI you need to edit the desktop
> autostart file.
>
> On the raspberry pi it's found at:  ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
>
> nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
> and add a line like this to the end.
>
> @xastir
>
> That should cause xastir to start up after the desktop is up.
>
> NOTE:   The vast majority of my RPi are all headless so I haven't tried
> this with
> Xastir but it is the standard way of autostarting applications on the
> desktop.
>
> Ken,  N7IPB
>
> > Also have a question on how to set transmit delay so that the
> > transceiver has time to develop power before the data stream starts. On
> > a KPC3+ this was done by setting TXD to 60. Not at all sure how to do
> > with RPi3/Pi-Tnc/Xastir.
> >
> > Thanks for any comments.
> >
> > 73 Jim Darrough, KI7AY EM25pd
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Re: [Xastir] Local OSM tile server

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:40 AM Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) 
wrote:

> On 12/21/2018 10:21 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> > The next thing to try is to import an adjacent state into the same
> > database. Individual states don't seem to be taking up a ton of disk
> space.
> > Overall this is a great portable offline map solution, but it does take
> > some work.
>
> In my experience, osm2pgsql only likes importing to a clean database or
> applying updates.  It doesn't like 2 full imports coming into a single
> DB.  But if you work out how to get this to work, I'll be all ears
> (eyes) to learn something new!
>

I was afraid I would encounter issues importing another file into the same
database - have not attempted it yet.  I'm certainly willing to share any
info if fortunate enough to get things to work.

>
> And are you applying updates, and if so, where did you find instructions
> on how to prune the update files to cover only your area of interest?
>

I've read that updates are supported, but I haven't looked into that aspect
yet.  The thought had crossed my mind that there may be issues with only
needing updates for a small area such as one state. The up side of a small
area is that it's probably not a huge deal to configure a new DB and
re-import the state file again.  I may look into scripting that process.

>
> I run (ran, it's down at the moment) a full planet OSM tile server in a
> ubuntu VM under Windoze.  I fed it 4 spinning disks in a JBOD array for
> the tile storage and another 4 SSDs in a JBOD array for the database and
> node file.  It ran acceptably well, provided that the tile demand was
> low and slow.  I use(d) it as the primary tile server for development
> the APRSISCE/32/MO clients so I wouldn't hit the main servers if I did
> something stupid.
>

Speaking of APRSISCE/32, if I were to set it up in Wine on the same laptop
it should be able to access the local OSM tile server as well.

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Re: [Xastir] Local OSM tile server

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On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:12 AM Brian Heaton 
wrote:

> When I built a local OSM tile server a couple years ago, I found that
> moving to an SSD improved performance by an order of magnitude. The system
> was definitely IO bound by the disk random access time for reads.
>
>
> 73-KY9K/Brian
>
> There's a lot of I/O bound stuff already there, though, without the web
server component.  After downloading tiles there's a "reading tiles" phase
that can take some time.  I would expect a significant improvement using a
SSD regardless of where the web server resides (and also for reading
offline maps such as geotiff's).  There is a computational component using
a local web server because as I understand it Mapknik renders tiles on the
fly based on the info in the database. I don't know how significant the
computational load is, however.

In an ideal world it would be nice to get rid of the web server piece and
have Xastir call Mapnik, etc. to render the tiles.  Xastir already knows
how to read the tiles and apply them.  The documentation on Mapnik could be
better.  It seems the "OSM World" assumes the only thing anyone would want
to do after importing their data into a database is serve it up on a web
server, so everything is tailored to that.

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Re: [Xastir] Local OSM tile server

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On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 7:34 AM Jason KG4WSV  wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:21 PM Lee Bengston 
> wrote:
>
> > I tried the procedure below today on a cheap laptop with a weak Celeron
> > CPU.
>
>
> Thanks Lee.  Can you give us some specs on the computer? clock rate, #
> cores, RAM, maybe some disk specs like interface speed or RPM?  Did you use
> this to feed maps to xastir running on the same machine?
>

Hey Jason, It's an Asus laptop with a dual core Celeron N2830 CPU @ 2.16
GHz.  It was very low end - got it in 2015 from Micro Center for something
like $170 or $180 (maybe even less - can't remember exactly).  I am indeed
feeding maps to Xastir running on the same machine.  With the web server
running on the same machine it's just a matter of using a geo file in the
same format of the online OSM maps that points to the localhost instead of
a remote web server.

>
> Is the tile server process compute-bound or I/O bound?
>

I'm not sure I fully understand that question, but I think it's
compute-bound.

>
> I've contemplated something similar using an Odroid XU4 which has double
> the RAM, clock, and # cores, USB3 instead of 2, Gb ethernet instead of
> 100M, etc as compared to the raspberry pi 3.  We've used them at work for
> virtualization (running VMs via qemu) and it's a pretty impressive little
> board for under US$100. There's a new variant called the HC1 ("home cloud")
> that forgoes several external connections but provides a SATA connector and
> disk mount so it can be dedicated to storage. If it had an HDMI port i'd
> probably already have one to make a tile server + xastir machine.  I do
> have one that I'm using for a home file server and it's solid, as are the
> 75 or so XU4s we have at work.
>

I've been looking for a more powerful Pi alternative, and it seems the
reviews of a lot of them cite a lack of stability.  Good to know the Odroid
XU4 has been solid for you.

>
> For the expense I'd probably be better off just going with a laptop, but I
> can't quite let go of the idea of a linux touchscreen mounted on the dash.
>
> That does sound attractive.  I have a 2009 Netbook with an Atom
processor.  I may try the local server thing next with that.


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[Xastir] Local OSM tile server

[Lee Bengston]

I tried the procedure below today on a cheap laptop with a weak Celeron
CPU.  It definitely took some time, and a chunk of that time was devoted to
correcting some mistakes made along the way. The bottom line, though, is
that it works.

https://switch2osm.org/manually-building-a-tile-server-18-04-lts/

Although the procedure is no picnic, I believe it is somewhat easier now in
18.04 than it was in earlier versions of Ubuntu due to being able to
leverage more binaries from the repository, i.e. build less from source.

About the only things I did differently vs. what's in the article were
naming the database "osm1" instead of "gis", and downloading the osm data
for my current state of residence (WI) instead of Azerbaijan. The data file
for Wisconsin was still downloaded from http://download.geofabrik.de/.  The
tiles don't exactly load fast from the local webserver into Xastir on the
slow laptop, but nothing loads very fast on it.

The next thing to try is to import an adjacent state into the same
database. Individual states don't seem to be taking up a ton of disk space.
Overall this is a great portable offline map solution, but it does take
some work.

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Re: [Xastir] APRS-ios Stations Not Displayed or Listed

[Lee Bengston]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:07 PM Fred Hillhouse 
wrote:

> If the packet are from the APRS.FI iOS application, I understand that data
> only goes to the APRS.FI servers and not to the APRS-IS. I believe I
> arrived
> at that understanding on the APRS.FI forum. You will be able to see those
> packets on APRS.FI.
>

Looks like he's using APRS TX for IOS,
https://appadvice.com/app/aprs-tx/1075036718

>
> Best regards,
> Fred N7FMH
>


> -Original Message-
> From: Xastir [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Curt,
> WE7U
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 10:02 AM
> To: Michael Hoeft; Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] APRS-ios Stations Not Displayed or Listed
>
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018, Michael Hoeft wrote:
>
> > Xastir does not seem to want to display APRS-ios stations on the map or
> in
> the stations list.I can view those stations elsewhere but not on XastirIs
> there a config step I missed?73 Mike k2mphk2...@arrl.net
>
> Can you give examples of callsigns/ssid's that are not showing up? If they
> are showing up on Findu/Aprs.fi then I should be able to snag them from the
> internet feeds to test, or just look at the raw packets at those two sites
> to see if there's something awry.
>

The only other callsign+SSID combo shown on aprs.fi besides his Xastir
instance is K2MPH-5, which is using the aforementioned IOS app.  There'
aren't any raw packets shown.  Aprs.fi shows the last position report was
in March, so that's why there are no raw packets as they would not be saved
that long.

Michael, if you have sent anything recently from your phone it was not
picked up by the APRSIS, either.

Lee - K5DAT
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Re: [Xastir] Xastir with DRAWS

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 9:49 PM Michael  wrote:

> I fail to understand why it is so blasted hard to get an answer on
> anything on ham radio related forums. Why do people feel necessary to
> give information totally irrelevant to the question? Why can't people
> simply accept my question as it is, not tell me what my question should be?


> I am trying to make a decision on buying a DRAWS Hat for the
> RaspberryPi. I want to run various digital modes/applications including
> MT63/PSK31/etc. with fldigi and APRS with Xastir.
>

The quantity of Xastir users and developers that monitor this list is not
that large.  I suspect the reason you have not seen the specific type of
reply you are looking for is simply due to a lack of Xastir users (on this
list) that own a DRAWS Hat.

Lee - K5DAT

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Re: [Xastir] Send message function broken on Ubuntu Linux?

[Lee Bengston]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:41 AM David A Aitcheson <
david.aitche...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Curt / Tom,
>
> de Dave KB3EFS
>
> Not sure if it is Xastir or a Gnome on Ubuntu 14.04.04 issue.
>
> As recently as this past summer I was able to send a message to a APRS
> mobile from my laptop via APRS-IS.
>
> Now I can bring up the screen and get the cursor in the correct field
> but when I type a message it does not show up on the screen.
>

Hey Dave,
This same problem cropped up this week on my laptop.  I hadn't made any
changes since Sunday, but on Wednesday when I tried to answer a message I
couldn't type anything into the field.  I was able to send messages
normally on Monday and Tuesday - and also last week and on through the
weekend, so it's strange to me that it suddenly happened on its own.
Copy/paste using the center mouse button still worked.  Shutting down
Xastir and restarting fixed it.  On Friday morning it happened again.  I
restarted again, and so far so good since then.  Overall it's not a big
deal since I can get out of it.  Ubuntu 18.04 here using the Mate desktop.

>
> I refreshed Xastir with the included update script this morning; but I
> am not sure of when this function stopped working.
>
>
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Re: [Xastir] Online Map Enhancements

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:46 AM Tom Russo  wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:47:40AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
> >
> > There's a remaining part of the new code I have decided to take another
> > look at to see if I can make it more efficient before sharing via Git. In
> > the meantime anyone who's interested in checking out the new capabilities
> > can swap the 4 source files in a local clone, rebuild, and add the new
> Geo
> > files. I would back up those 4 source files before trying that.
>
> If you're working in a git clone, those files are already backed up.  You
> just need to restore them from your clone.
>
>git checkout -- 
>
> will restore  back to what was in the git repo at the
> most recent commit.  You will, of course, lose your changes that way.  Or
> you
> can just "stash" the changes and return to the version stored in the git
> repo:
>
>git stash push
>
> This takes all uncommitted changes in the current directory, undoes them,
> and restores you to the original.  But it also *saves* what changed on
> a stack, so you can get it back:
>   git stash pop
>
> This will take the top set of changes off the stack and reapply them.
>
> There's also
>   git stash apply
> that re-applies the changes on the top of the stack without popping them
> off,
> and
>   git stash drop
> that takes the top changes off the stack and discards them without
> applying.
>
> Last weekend I made some additional changes to the code.  It's now 5
source files that have been modified.  The revised source files are
available here:
http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/new-Xastir-src_2018-11-25.tar.gz

Sample geo files are available here:
http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/Xastir-Geo-files_2018-11-25.tar.gz

The WMS_nationalmap.gov, Stamen, and OpenTopo files will work without any
source code modifications. The others will not work until after recompiling
with the 5 updated source files.  Geo files need to be copied to
/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online

The sample geo files I shared previously will not work with the most up to
date mods, so both the source files and geo files I shared earlier will
need to be replaced.  I would appreciate any feedback on how this stuff
works (or doesn't).  There's no guarantee that these mods will make it into
an official Xastir release, so this may be your only opportunity to play.
:-)

Thanks,
Lee - K5DAT





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Re: [Xastir] Kantronics DiGi help

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 12:23 AM MJ Inabnit 
>
> Why hasn't the author replied?  This is VERY important info for newbies
> LIKE ME!
>
> Thanks for the assist.  I'll keep this email as a reference as I plug
> along on our diginodes.
>
> 73
>

In addition to what Curt said...

It's not a given that either of the 2 main authors that monitor this list
owns a Kantronics TNC.

Lee - K5DAT


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Re: [Xastir] Online Map Enhancements

[Lee Bengston]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 10:54 PM Tom Russo  On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:24:14PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
> > >
> > > I looked at the Wiki article on how developers should use Git, but I
> guess
> > > my brain is to tired for that to fully soak in, so for now I'm sharing
> the
> > > modified source files via a web link.
> > >
> >
> > By the way I didn't mean to imply above that I now consider myself to be
> a
> > developer :-)
>
> At the moment, only Curt and I have permission to write to the main Xastir
> repo, and both of us are swamped (as you might have noticed from our
> relative
> silence these days).  So downloading a new tarball of source code and
> picking
> out the changes is pretty much not something either of us will do.  The
> only
> real process we have these days is pull requests, so if you wanna share
> your
> work and get it into Xastir, you pretty much have to go that route.
>

The tarball contains only the 4 files that were changed, but regardless I
understand the right way to share work is via Git.

>
> I just reviewed the "Notes:Git" file, and it isn't really that helpful for
> suggesting how a member of the community should share their code via Git.
> I'll try to summarize.  I am not good at summarizing, so this is long.
>

I'll take all the info I can get.

>
> The best way to do it is to create a "fork" of Xastir on GitHub.  There's
> a ton of information on Github about that here:
>https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-forks/
> Note that some of this documentation assumes that your fork is the one
> you cloned (so it is called "origin") and the main repo from which you
> forked has been defined as an alternate remote ("upstream") but my
> thumbnail
> sketch is the other way around, because you already have Xastir's repo
> cloned and set as the "origin" remote.
>
> A thumbnail sketch is:
>   - Make sure your clone is up to date:
> git fetch origin
> git merge master
>
>   - Create a github account if you don't already have one.
>
>   - Back inside your existing git clone,
> Make sure to configure git so your commits have your name and email
> address associated with them:
>
>git config --global user.name "Lee Bengston"
>git config --global user.email 
>
> Make sure you use the same email address that you used
> to set up your Github account.
>
>   - Now create a fork on github through github's web interface
> using the "fork" button at the top right corner of the Xastir project
> page
> at https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir
>
> A "fork" is nothing more than a git clone that lives on Github instead
> of your machine, but is owned by you and you can do anything you want
> to it, including pushing changes from your local git repo on your
> own machine.
>
>
>   - Associate your fork with a "remote" in your git clone directory:
> git remote add  
> "remote name" is something you'll use to refer to this alternate
> Github fork.  "remote url" is the URL to your Github fork.  So, for
> example
> git remote add myfork https://github.com/ name>/Xastir.git
>
> If you do "git remote -v" you should now see four lines, two saying
> there's
> the default "origin" remote, and two with your new one called "myfork".
>
> You can now pull code from "origin" to keep current with Xastir's
> development as usual.  But having the other remote defined means
> you can also mess around with your fork without having two
> different directories to work in.
>
>   - Now check the current status of your clone directory:
> git status
> It should show that you've got a few code changes, and you should make
> sure
> that only the changes you *want* are there.  It will probably also
> show that you're on the "master" branch.
>
> Use
>git diff
> and look over the differences, and make sure that everything that is
> different between your working directory and the repo's previous
> state are changes you really wanted to share.
>
>   - Create a new branch to hold the changes you want to share, and switch
> to it.
>   git checkout -b myspecialnewhack
> The "checkout" command switches which branch you're on, and the
> "-b" flag means "create the branch before switching."
>
>   - Once again, check your status:
>   git status
> It should show that yo

Re: [Xastir] Online Map Enhancements

[Lee Bengston]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 4:26 PM Lee Bengston  wrote:

> After 11 years of avoiding attempting to modify Xastir's source code I
> took the plunge.
>
> Knowing there were alternative OSM-like tile sets available such as those
> listed here, http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/tile-sets, I thought I would see
> if I could get Xastir to  retrieve tiles from servers that reverse the x
> and y parameter when storing the otherwise standard 256x256 tiles.  After
> much teeth gnashing and attempts to fry my brain, which is mostly due to
> zero experience programming in C, I got things working.
>
> Next it was time to try some different URL's, and to my surprise and
> dismay I found the nationalmap.gov sever didn't put an extension on the
> tiles, which are jpg files.  So it was back to the source to deal with that
> scenario, and I was able to get that working as well.
>
> I looked at the Wiki article on how developers should use Git, but I guess
> my brain is to tired for that to fully soak in, so for now I'm sharing the
> modified source files via a web link.
>

By the way I didn't mean to imply above that I now consider myself to be a
developer :-)

>
> http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/new-Xastir-src.tar.gz
>
> Also here are two sample geo files that use the new capabilities:
>
> http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/sample-geo-files.tar.gz
>
> At this point I'm not recommending that new geo files for a bunch of
> alternate tile sets should be included with Xastir's source code.  I don't
> have a good handle on what the terms of use are for the ones on the
> aprsisce site above.  I'm thinking the nationalmap.gov geo for the USGS
> Topo Map, which is one of the samples provided is probably OK.  The URL for
> that one is not on the aforementioned aprsisce site - perhaps because it's
> one that doesn't use file extensions in the tile names.
>
> I'm sure there are more efficient ways to code what I did, but I'll still
> take the moral victory that it works.  :-)
>

Update - I changed the code so that map_OSM.c does not get so bloated.  The
same download above will retrieve the most up to date source files.  The
new geo files are still working after the changes.

>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
>
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[Xastir] Online Map Enhancements

[Lee Bengston]

After 11 years of avoiding attempting to modify Xastir's source code I took
the plunge.

Knowing there were alternative OSM-like tile sets available such as those
listed here, http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/tile-sets, I thought I would see
if I could get Xastir to  retrieve tiles from servers that reverse the x
and y parameter when storing the otherwise standard 256x256 tiles.  After
much teeth gnashing and attempts to fry my brain, which is mostly due to
zero experience programming in C, I got things working.

Next it was time to try some different URL's, and to my surprise and dismay
I found the nationalmap.gov sever didn't put an extension on the tiles,
which are jpg files.  So it was back to the source to deal with that
scenario, and I was able to get that working as well.

I looked at the Wiki article on how developers should use Git, but I guess
my brain is to tired for that to fully soak in, so for now I'm sharing the
modified source files via a web link.

http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/new-Xastir-src.tar.gz

Also here are two sample geo files that use the new capabilities:

http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/sample-geo-files.tar.gz

At this point I'm not recommending that new geo files for a bunch of
alternate tile sets should be included with Xastir's source code.  I don't
have a good handle on what the terms of use are for the ones on the
aprsisce site above.  I'm thinking the nationalmap.gov geo for the USGS
Topo Map, which is one of the samples provided is probably OK.  The URL for
that one is not on the aforementioned aprsisce site - perhaps because it's
one that doesn't use file extensions in the tile names.

I'm sure there are more efficient ways to code what I did, but I'll still
take the moral victory that it works.  :-)

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[Xastir] Online/nationalmap.gov map chooser options.

[Lee Bengston]

I noticed none of the options under "Online/nationalmap.gov" worked, so I
decided to look around at the nationalmap.gov sites to see if I could
figure anything out.  Based on this site,
https://basemap.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/USGSTopo/MapServer,
and clicking the WMS link, I came up with the following, and put it in a
file named US_Topo.geo, and copied it to
/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/nationalmap.gov.  After reindexing the
maps, presto, I got a map.  What's in the geo file is what is between the
dashed lines below.

WMSSERVER
URL
https://basemap.nationalmap.gov:443/arcgis/services/USGSTopo/MapServer/WmsServer?service=WMS=1.1.1=GetMap=EPSG:4326=image/png=0xFF=FALSE==0
-
At a high level it appears they have changed to https on port 443, but I
assume libcurl is handling that without issue.

I'll leave it to the developers to decide if they want to look into this
any further, but in the meantime I at least have a geo file that works.  :-)

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Re: [Xastir] Maps

[Lee Bengston]

I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 18.04 today, and I encountered the libcurl
issue.  The solution for me was to remove libcurl4-openssl-dev and install
libcurl4-gnutls-dev.  Recompiling Xastir after that change left me with an
installation with maps working normally.  In the map chooser, the
Online/OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo selection has been relatively bulletproof over
the years.  There is also an Online/USTigermap.geo selection that works
(and there are other Online map choices that work as well).

It's not clear from your message if your are looking to display any map
(either online or offline), or if you are looking for how to display an
offline map without an internet connection.  Also are you using the version
of Xastir that is provided by Ubuntu 18.10, or are you using a compiled
version downloaded from GitHub?  If you are using the one provided by
Ubuntu it may not be up to date enough to include the Tiger Map updates.

Lee - K5DAT


On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:37 PM Peter Lutz  wrote:

> I have been trying to get a map to appear on my newly installed xastir all
> afternoon.  The new installation was required when Ubuntu 18.04 broke the
> libcurl3/4 link.  I have been using xastir for many years, and usually
> manage
> to find some kind of map that works for Napa, CA and the surrounding area,
> but it is always without any idea of what I am really doing.  There is a
> lot
> of information (some of it very old) on the internet and in the README.MAPS
> file, but I can't find any example of how to get a map to appear.  Several
> different examples using the different formats would be really excellent,
> but just one working example might be enough to get me going.  I loved
> Tigermaps when they worked.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Peter Lutz  AA6AV
> Meaning is Homemade.
> www.p-lutz.net
>
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[Xastir] Weather Stations

[Lee Bengston]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a weather station that is "APRS
friendly"?  I'm not necessarily trying to set one up on a low budget, but
"money is no object" probably doesn't fit, either.  :-)

Perhaps I should say "Xastir friendly" to keep from straying off-topic.

Thanks,

Lee
K5DAT
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Re: [Xastir] Added to Git: U.S. Tiger WMS Maps

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 5:15 PM Curt, WE7U  wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2018, Tom Henderson wrote:
>
> > Looks great! However, I can't get the borders to overlay any other map.
> The
> > transparency doesn't seem to be working.
>
> Yea, was working for me, but the .geo for that one may have to be
> re-worked for different depths of displays and such.
>
> I have U.S. Counties and State Boundaries Shapefiles I can use as well. No
> issues with transparency 'cuz they are vector maps.
>
> I can't get the borders to work with the intended online Tiger maps.
Whenever the border map is chosen it completely covers the Tiger Map so
that all I can see are the borders and labels.  Using GM.

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Re: [Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF

[Lee Bengston]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Brian Heaton 
wrote:

> I cranked the dpi setting in the script so mine would look good at higher
> zoom levels. Bigger files but storage is cheap.
>
> ​Resurrecting an old thread here.  I've been converting geopdf's lately
and found it's easier now to install prerequisites because the current
version of the binary gdal package in Ubuntu supports the conversion - no
need to build gdal from source.  My laptop is on Ubuntu 17.10, so anyone on
that release or 18.04 should be able to take advantage.
  I'm not sure where the cutoff is, but I do know Ubuntu 16.04 required a
source build of gdal because the binary version was below version 1.8.1.

I've been looking through the geopdf2gtiff.pl script, but I can't find
where to increase the "dpi setting" as the person above indicated had been
done.  If anyone can shed some light on that (or debunk it if it's not
possible), I would appreciate it.


Thanks,
Lee
K5DAT


>
> >   From: Lee Bengston 
> >  To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion 
> >  Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:18 AM
> >  Subject: Re: [Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF
> >
> > Xastir has a script that uses gdal to convert GeoPDF to GeoTIFF.  Tom
> Russo
> > wrote it a few years ago and refined it much more recently.  There was
> > quite a bit of discussion about it not too long ago.
> >
> > Lee - K5DAT
> > On Mar 21, 2016 11:12 AM, "Curt Mills"  wrote:
> >
> > > As I recall the geoPDF's have multiple layers that can be
> > enabled/disabled
> > > for viewing. I'm not sure whether these files can be directly used
> within
> > > other programs w/o having to implement Postscript and a bunch of other
> > > stuff. Would be worth investigating though.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Eric Christensen <
> > > e...@christensenplace.us>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > > > Hash: SHA256
> > > >
> > > > I recently learned that USGS will no longer release GeoTIFF-formatted
> > > > map files in favor of GeoPDF[0].  This will likely cause problems for
> > > > Xastir.  I did locate a instructions for converting the GeoPDF to
> > > > GeoTIFF[1].
> > > >
> > > > [0] http://www.usgs.gov/faq/taxonomy/term/10413
> > > > [1] http://www.usgs.gov/faq/node/3704
> > > >
> > > > - --Eric
>
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Re: [Xastir] Pi scripts

[Lee Bengston]

Hi Dex,

Yes, I need to update them for 18.04. Your result implies none of the
package names changed between 16.04 and 18.04, which is good.  Your Pi must
be a lot stronger than mine if it can run Kubuntu/KDE.

Lee - K5DAT


On Mon, May 14, 2018, 1:06 AM Dexter N Muir  wrote:

> Lee, FYI
>
> I've just updated my Kubuntu install at the rest home (I spend a
> week there each couple of months - respite for my wife). The update
> invalidated the previous install, so it was a necessity.
>
> Your Pi scripts could use an update: I copied the if - fi block for
> xenial 16.04 and renamed as bionic 18.04, and all worked flawlessly. I'm
> now happily running 2.1.1
>
> 73
> Dex, ZL2DEX
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Re: [Xastir] Help with Maps

[Lee Bengston]

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Curt, WE7U  wrote:

> On Tue, 8 May 2018, Joseph Chiarelli wrote:
>
> I didn?t realize that ?Online? selects everything. As you both suspected,
>> it was the mapquest-aerial and mapquest ones giving the issue.
>
>
​I'm fairly sure the Mapquest choice was removed a while back, so either
you're running an older version of Xastir, or it's a leftover from an
earlier version.  Upgrading doesn't necessarily remove old map choices.​

>
>> Playing further, i think i need to go with the Offline maps. I thought it
>> saved the online maps to cache, but it seems to download the tiles
>> everytime i move the map around.
>>
>
> Well... Kind'a. Try using the arrow keys to move around and picking
> particular zoom levels using the pageup/pagedown keys and you'll stick to
> tiles you've downloaded before. If you deviate from that the map caching
> gets lost and tries to pull in new ones.
>

​Exactly - it does cache maps, but each time you move the map around you're
entering an area where it doesn't have some of the tiles it needs to fill
the entire screen.​

>
> You can also set a map bookmark for a starting position/zoom level so that
> you can get back into the tiles if you accidentally stray.
>
>
> ​Lee - K5DAT
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Re: [Xastir] upgrade

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 9:52 AM, C.L. Hollahan  wrote:

> Right now I am running Ubuntu on a RasPi 2 with Xastir 2.0.6. What is the
> best way to update to the latest version, uninstall and get latest from
> Git, or is there an update script I can run?
>
> ​What version of Ubuntu?  Currently the Wiki as well as my build script
support Ubuntu 16.04 (and earlier), but not the current 18.04.​  If you're
on 18.04 I would follow the manual installation notes in the Xastir wiki to
install from Git in version 16.04 because chances are the prerequisite
package names haven't changed.  There's also a section of the installation
notes that discusses what Tom R. said about moving from a binary
installation to a source installation.

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Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 495, Issue 1

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Dexter N Muir  wrote:

>
>
> On 01/05/18 15:18, xastir-requ...@lists.xastir.org wrote:
>
>> ...
>> This will also happen if you leave off the "https://;, because github
>> will
>> assume ssh://
>>
> I eventually tried that (Lee's build scripts not working) and it let me
> though so I could download the .zip. ... http:// didn't work either, so
> the script in any form is hosed. Maybe some day git might 'git' its
> knickers untwisted? ...
> Now to try a build on the pi. The 'update' section flew through, so I
> assume all else is well ...
>

​Fyi the build scripts use ​https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git  - just
tried one and it worked.  So I tend to agree there's something amiss with
your installation.

>
> Unzipped the Xastir-master.zip to ~/src/, re-named the Xastir-master
> directory to Xastir and all else from the script worked ...
> ... and what looks like a valid xastir executable, with permission to
> allow anyone to run, is installed as expected in /usr/local/bin ... but
> won't run :(
>

​What happens when you run xastir from a terminal window?
​

> This is what caused me to "re-do from start", and I'm led to the
> conclusion that there's something in my system that's screwed (though all
> else seems to be functioning normally).
>I really don't want to format the SD card and reinstall Raspbian, but
> that's the next logical step. Anyone else with ideas?
>
> getting withdrawal symptoms ...
> Dex, ZL2DEX
>
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Re: [Xastir] Autostart Xastir

[Lee Bengston]

On Feb 20, 2018 12:52 PM, "Jason KG4WSV"  wrote:

Pretty sure systemd would have the same problem as cron - the
application needs to be a child of the window manager so that the X
security is satisfied.


Agree


And Curt, if systemd scripts are easier than rc scripts then one of us
is looking at the wrong documentation.  :)


I had problems getting systemd scripts to work in Raspbian Jessie. Then I
tried Arch Linux on the Pi, and systemd worked great.  I did actually find
them easier than rc scripts, and it helped that Arch had its own systemd
documentation that was pretty good. I suspect Arch had an advantage of not
carrying the baggage of rc scripts prior to transitioning to systemd. Maybe
Stretch is better - haven't tried it on the Pi yet.


So back to the original question.  I read this:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28=139224

and sure enough I have a file  .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

and it has some stuff in it:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@point-rpi


So i use my favorite editor to add this line to the end of that file:

@/usr/local/bin/xastir


and now xastir starts on boot.

-Jason
kg4wsv


Sounds definitive to me. Now I'm really curious if putting that same line
in this file will also work.

etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/startup

That file did work for me to start applications after LXDE started, but it
definitely wasn't in Raspbian Stretch at that time - was Wheezy if I
remember right.

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Re: [Xastir] Autostart Xastir

[Lee Bengston]

On Feb 19, 2018 6:38 PM, "Steven Morrison" 
wrote:

On 2/19/2018 2:16 PM, Joseph LaFerla wrote:

> Hi
>
> Finally, I am actively trying to find a way to start Xastir after bootup
> of the Raspberry pi gui.  The other day we had a power  failure which
> caused the pi to reboot.  Since I have until now always started xastir
> manually from a terminal window with xastiur &, when the power came back
> xastir did not start up.  I have searched the archives and online for
> something that works.  Problem is that the xastir executable has to run
> after the gui comes up.  I don’t think this issue is specific to a rpi.  I
> would think the same consideration would apply to any Linux gui that runs
> after Linux has booted up.  Can anybody outline the steps I need to do to
> make this happen?
>
> Thanks as always.
>
> Joe
> VA3JLF
>
Joe,

This is a copy of  an email I sent to some friends last August, describing
how I got Xastir to start automatically  at reboot on my Raspberry PI.
Raspbian is going through some changes as the system adopts to the new
systemd startup process, but parts are still handled by the window manager:

Hi All,

I finally got my Raspberry Pi to automatically load Xastir on startup and
reboot. I've been wrestling with this for a long time off and on, and
Finally got it to work last night.


I had been trying to use the new systemd startup process and had a .desktop
unit file defined but it never worked, and I could never even find any
failure messages.  It turns out the default X-windows manager is LXDE, not
Gnome or KDE.  Apparently LXDE hasn't implemented all of the systemd
startup processing. Last night I finally found a reference to auto starting
LXDE jobs that worked .


Here are the basic steps I followed:

1. Define a simple shell program: /sudo nano /usr/local/bin/start_xastir.sh
/*/
/*

*#!/bin/bash
# This shell starts Festival text to speech program than starts the xastir
APRS$

echo "Starting  start_xastir script"

xterm -e festival &
echo "Festival Started"
Sleep 5

xterm -e xastir &

exit
*

2. add the script to the USER auto start entries for LXDE: /sudo nano
//|~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart|/

|(this path may also show LXDE-pi instead of LXDE. Both point to the same
locations on my system)


*@lxpanel --profile LXDE**
**@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE**
**@xscreensaver -no-splash**
**@sh /usr/local/bin/start_xastir.sh**
*


Interesting, a few years ago I was able to auto-start an application in
LXDE on a Raspberry Pi by editing this file: (or creating it new if it
didn't exist)

/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/startup

I wasn't starting Xastir at that time, but if I had, there would have been
only one line in the file as follows:

@/usr/local/bin/start_xastir.sh

The above assumes there is a script that starts xastir in /usr//local/bin
as given by the example above.  This worked for me, but it was an older
version of Raspbian at that time.

<- snip -->

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Re: [Xastir] New Xastir build

[Lee Bengston]

On Feb 14, 2018 9:12 PM, "Joseph LaFerla"  wrote:

Sorry Tom, I can see your confusion.  What I did last time was to run Lee’s
script for Raspberry pi.   After that, all I did some time ago was to run
./update-xastir in ~./src/Xastir.  Looking at the update-xastir script, it
seems that’s what I should do.  Is that correct?  And if I run
update-xastir periodically, I should be keeping it up to date, without the
need to do separate compile/make.

Joe


The update-xastir script should work.  I prefer to do it more cleanly by
renaming
~./src/Xastir to something like ~./src/Xastir2, and then doing the
following wiki steps.

From inside ~/src, issue ...

git clone https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir.git

  cd Xastir
   ./bootstrap.sh

   cd ~/src/Xastir
mkdir build
cd build
../configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff"

   make
   sudo make install

Just a personal preference of working with a brand new source download of
the latest and greatest. You could also get the same result by doing the
same directory renaming and running my script.  As Tom pointed out, the
script would try to reinstall the dependent packages, so it's kind of
overkill.

Lee - K5DAT


From: Tom Russo
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:15 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] New Xastir build

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 05:50:02PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
collision of the  flavor, containing:
> I was just wondering whether I should install the new Xastir alongside
the current version (in new directories of course) or simply run the
Lee???s script in the current directories.  I have never had to do this
before, so would appreciate some help.  Or should I uninstall the current
version, which is installed from source.

When you say you have already installed Xastir from source, was it source
from
Git, or the old 2.0.8 tarball from Sourceforge?

There is NO difference between the 2.1.0 tarball code and the git master
branch except a version number.  If you're already building from git master,
don't bother installing 2.1.0.  You can just "git pull" in your source clone
directory again and rebuild/reinstall in the same build directory you used
last time.  That's what using the live git version is all about --- you
don't
bother to wait for releases (which these days come very rarely, although I
hope to fix that), and you get the incremental fixes as they happen.

If you're using 2.0.8 tarballs, just pull down the 2.1.0 tarball from
Github and do what you did to build  and install 2.0.8 --- it'll overwrite
the
old one.

I can't really see any reason to install the new one in a separate place, or
to remove the old one first.  The only reason I can see to uninstall the old
version is if it's really old (like 2.0.6 or 2.0.4) and you want to get rid
of the old, broken .geos for servers that went away and which those old
versions installed.

The only reason I can see to uninstall Xastir before upgrading is if the
old install is from a package management system --- in that case, the new
source-built would be installing to /usr/local, and the old was installed in
/usr.  And then there are issues with fixing up your xastir.cnf and other
config files.  But that's not what you said you did, so that's not an issue.

I don't even see much benefit to re-running helper scripts to do the new
build,
either.  Most of those are great ways to get the first build done, because
they
take care of installing all the dependent libraries for you.  But if you've
already got a build, you've already got those libraries, and the rest of it
is
just "configure" and "make" and "sudo make install."

--
Tom RussoKM5VY
Tijeras, NM

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Re: [Xastir] Movable zoomanble maps

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Curt, WE7U  wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Joseph LaFerla wrote:
>
> Could you point me to where I can turn on map caching?  I’ve looked
>> everywhere and must have missed it.
>>
>
> As I recall it has to do with Berkeley DB / Sleepycad DB. You have to have
> the dblib package and the header package that matches the version number.
> Sometimes you can get crossed up with a different version number for the
> library as oppposed to the header package, or get multiple libraries
> installed and the header package only matches one of them. Try to get only
> one library and one header package installed. Sometimes you end up with a
> very old compatibility library package and a newer lib package, plus a
> header package for the new one: That seems to work.
>
​
If you click "Help", then "About" in Xastir you will see "map_caching" in
the list of libraries​ if the Berkeley DB package is compiled in.  If it's
there you already have it - there's no enable/disable switch that I am
aware of within Xastir itself.

>
> Hope that's not too many words to describe something relatively simple.
> Ask more to the list if you get into trouble.
>
> ​If you don't see ​"map_caching" on the list, you are most likely lacking
the "libdb-dev" package.  There's nothing in this specific thread that says
what platform or OS you using, but I think in a different thread you were
on a Raspberry Pi?

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Re: [Xastir] Cygwin Users?

[Lee Bengston]

On Nov 20, 2017 10:15 PM, "Dan Srebnick"  wrote:

Thank you Curt.  I will have to take a look at this.  I was unaware that
this is an option.

-Original Message-
From: Xastir [mailto:xastir-boun...@xastir.org] On Behalf Of Curt Mills
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 21:49
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion 
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Cygwin Users?

Xastir.org wiki. Installation. Windows. Win10 install. Doesn't use Cygwin at
all.


I'm not sure if the integrated Windows 10/Ubuntu solution supports serial
ports, however. Does Cygwin support them?

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Re: [Xastir] Maps

[Lee Bengston]

Fyi, Dex and I had some private email discussion prior to you sending Joe
my way, and I expect the same solution will work for him.

Lee - K5DAT


On Nov 6, 2017 1:20 PM, "David A Aitcheson" <david.aitche...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Lee,

Joe was the easy to deal with "numerator", now comes the fun of getting
"Sir Dexter from down under" working again... 

Like I said in another email, I think he and Joe had a very similar
issue. If Dexter can get his system back using your latest script then
that makes the new script golden in my book.

Dave - KB3EFS


On 11/06/2017 12:49 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> Update - Joe tried the new script I posted earlier today, which adds the
> needed libwebp-dev package, and he said it worked, so he has online maps
> now.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2017 5:51 AM, "Lee Bengston" <lee.bengs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Try installing libwebp-dev, i.e. sudo apt-get install libwebp-dev. Then
>> recompile Xastir.
>>
>> There is a known problem with the graphicsmagick development package in
>> the latest Ubuntu and Debian releases. It does not install libwebp-dev
as a
>> dependency.
>>
>> At the end of the output of the configure script there is a list of
>> supported libraries, and without libwebp-dev installed you should have
seen
>> a "No" for Imagemagick/graphicsmagick support. Xastir needs that for
online
>> map support as well as support for some offline formats.  After
installing
>> libwebp-dev and running configure again you should see a "yes" on that
line
>>
>> The above assumes you already installed the libgraphicsmagick1-dev
>> package. If not, be sure to install that as well.
>>
>> Lee - K5DAT
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2017 10:58 AM, "Joseph LaFerla" <j...@laferla.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Yes I have expand dirs checked.  When I  moved to the source, I deleted
>> .xastir and let xastir recreate the dir.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>>
>> From: Jason KG4WSV
>> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM
>> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps
>>
>> Did you click "expand dirs" on map chooser? Maybe the maps you like
>> were moved into a subdirectory (e.g. Online) and they're just not
>> visible.
>>
>> It may be possible there were some maps present in the binary
>> distribution /usr/share/xastir/maps that are no longer present? If you
>> haven't removed the binary xastir yet, take a look at
>> /usr/share/xastir/maps and compare to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps .
>>
>> -Jason
>> kg4wsv
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Re: [Xastir] Maps

[Lee Bengston]

Update - Joe tried the new script I posted earlier today, which adds the
needed libwebp-dev package, and he said it worked, so he has online maps
now.

Lee - K5DAT


On Nov 6, 2017 5:51 AM, "Lee Bengston" <lee.bengs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Try installing libwebp-dev, i.e. sudo apt-get install libwebp-dev. Then
> recompile Xastir.
>
> There is a known problem with the graphicsmagick development package in
> the latest Ubuntu and Debian releases. It does not install libwebp-dev as a
> dependency.
>
> At the end of the output of the configure script there is a list of
> supported libraries, and without libwebp-dev installed you should have seen
> a "No" for Imagemagick/graphicsmagick support. Xastir needs that for online
> map support as well as support for some offline formats.  After installing
> libwebp-dev and running configure again you should see a "yes" on that line
>
> The above assumes you already installed the libgraphicsmagick1-dev
> package. If not, be sure to install that as well.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2017 10:58 AM, "Joseph LaFerla" <j...@laferla.ca> wrote:
>
> Yes I have expand dirs checked.  When I  moved to the source, I deleted
> .xastir and let xastir recreate the dir.
>
> Joe
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Jason KG4WSV
> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps
>
> Did you click "expand dirs" on map chooser? Maybe the maps you like
> were moved into a subdirectory (e.g. Online) and they're just not
> visible.
>
> It may be possible there were some maps present in the binary
> distribution /usr/share/xastir/maps that are no longer present? If you
> haven't removed the binary xastir yet, take a look at
> /usr/share/xastir/maps and compare to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps .
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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[Xastir] Raspbian Wiki Section updated

[Lee Bengston]

http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Raspbian

The Debian Stretch based version of Raspbian is now supported, and that
includes the build script.  I'm running Arch Linux currently on my Rpi, so
one caveat is I have not tested either the revised script or the revised
manual procedure.

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Re: [Xastir] Maps

[Lee Bengston]

Try installing libwebp-dev, i.e. sudo apt-get install libwebp-dev. Then
recompile Xastir.

There is a known problem with the graphicsmagick development package in the
latest Ubuntu and Debian releases. It does not install libwebp-dev as a
dependency.

At the end of the output of the configure script there is a list of
supported libraries, and without libwebp-dev installed you should have seen
a "No" for Imagemagick/graphicsmagick support. Xastir needs that for online
map support as well as support for some offline formats.  After installing
libwebp-dev and running configure again you should see a "yes" on that line

The above assumes you already installed the libgraphicsmagick1-dev package.
If not, be sure to install that as well.

Lee - K5DAT



On Nov 3, 2017 10:58 AM, "Joseph LaFerla"  wrote:

Yes I have expand dirs checked.  When I  moved to the source, I deleted
.xastir and let xastir recreate the dir.

Joe


Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: Jason KG4WSV
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps

Did you click "expand dirs" on map chooser? Maybe the maps you like
were moved into a subdirectory (e.g. Online) and they're just not
visible.

It may be possible there were some maps present in the binary
distribution /usr/share/xastir/maps that are no longer present? If you
haven't removed the binary xastir yet, take a look at
/usr/share/xastir/maps and compare to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps .

-Jason
kg4wsv
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Re: [Xastir] Raspberry Pi 'Stretch'- Maps ...

[Lee Bengston]

IOn Nov 4, 2017 3:05 PM, "Dexter N Muir"  wrote:

I followed my usual method: Lee's (175moonlight.com) script. His latest
says it works on Wheezy and Jessie. I already have that and it worked well.
The binary it produced worked through an online upgrade from Jessie to
Stretch - but that threw out some other stuff I was doing, so I did a full
re-image (to a larger card). Relatively painless - age is dimming my memory
capability so I keep an updated reminder list of things I need to do (RasPi
and Kubuntu) when re-installing. Handy - I'm part-way through replacing
Kubi-wan to a fresh hard drive too.
   As above, Lee's script. It fell over looking for libdb5.1. I've had this
before, and cured it by taking out the numbers. On closer inspection,
there's an if-else clause in there that looks at the OS version number.
When it doesn't find 8 (for Jessie, which looks for libdb5.3) it goes to
the 'else' and looks for 5.1 - Wheezy didn't even like that at some stage.
I took the numbers out of the 'else' line and all was sweet. I've advised
Lee to remove the clause and take out the numbers. 'lidb-dev' gets the
right version by default.

   All config went well until Maps. The Onlines don't show up. I've checked
/usr/local/share/xastir/maps and its subs for permissions, and they're all
readable by anybody. Re-index ALL maps has no effect. I want my OSM mapnik
back! It's there ... WH! Gimme!

73, all
Dex, ZL2DEX


That script was written specifically for Raspbian versions based on Debian
Wheezy and Jessie. Stretch should be the same as Jessie with the exception
that it needs the libwebp-dev package installed. If I recall correctly,
libwebp-dev is a dependency of the graphicsmagick development package that
is not being installed automatically as it should be.

Without libwebp-dev, I believe online OSM maps will not load. I would still
expect them to show up in the map chooser, however.

Lee - K5DAT
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Re: [Xastir] RasPi upgrade continued ...

[Lee Bengston]

On Aug 31, 2017 3:30 PM, "Jason KG4WSV"  wrote:

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Rob Noll  wrote:
> Jason,  does your panel disappear on Jessie too, or just on Stretch?

I saw it blink out a couple of times but come back on an updated
Jessie yesterday. this was one incident after bringing up xastir.
successive xastir runs did not seem to have any effect.

It goes and stays gone on stretch.

I've been testing on a machine here at work.  My personal "production"
xastir pi machine hasn't been "apt-get update"ed in a while, and it
has never had a problem.  If I have time i'll take a look at it
tonight, just to make sure it's still sane.

-Jason
kg4wsv


For those having problems, it might be worth a try to install the XFCE
desktop if it's available in Raspbian Stretch. It's not as lightweight as
LXDE, but the Pi 3 may handle it ok. If XFCE is not an option, perhaps
their are other alternatives to LXDE.

Lee - K5DAT
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Re: [Xastir] RasPi upgrade continued ...

[Lee Bengston]

I did some googling yesterday and found several cases of the lxpanel
disappearing on various platforms with the lxde desktop. Some went back to
2010. Was hard to tell if anyone found a definitive solution.

Lee - K5DAT


On Aug 31, 2017 11:52 AM, "Rob Noll"  wrote:

> Interesting find...  FWIW, my Pi is on Jessie and I have the
> disappearing-panel problem, and I do think I did an apt-get
> update/upgrade/autoremove not long ago.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Xastir [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Jason
> KG4WSV
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:49 AM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] RasPi upgrade continued ...
>
> I've replicated the problem.  Started with a relatively clean Jessie, did
> the upgrade to Stretch, logged in to a panel at the top of the screen (ala
> Jessie). ran xastir.  lxpanel went away.
> ~/.cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log has some rather unhelpful error messages.
>
> for grins, ran lxsession from the terminal window.  Got a different style
> of
> panel at the bottom of the screen.  ran xatir, got several "error in
> lxpanel: corrupted double-linked list".
>
> as part of the upgrade process I did an apt-get autoremove, which
> apparently
> removed a bunch of the development packages required for an install, since
> there are now .h files missing.
>
> did another apt-get update, only sees 2 sources (used to have ~20?)
>
> this update process is very suspect.  not sure I have a working system
> anymore.
>
>
> IMO, if you have a burning desire to upgrade to stretch, stifle it.
>
> -Jason
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Re: [Xastir] Problems following Raspbian upgrade to Stretch

[Lee Bengston]

The manual installation procedure for Raspian Jessie should work.  The
"shortcut/build script" doesn't support Stretch yet, so I would not run
that.  If it's run as is it will install the package set for the older
Wheezy version and will probably cause problems.  I would skip gdal - you'l
never need it.

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> I need a little help, please.
>
> I just upgraded my Raspberry Pi, dedicated to running xastir as an APRS
> igate, from Raspbian Jessie to Stretch. The upgrade ran smoothly, but now
> xastir won't run, complaining about missing library libgdal.so.1.
>
> Where can I retrieve a copy of this library, or do I need to recompile
> xastir?
>
>
> I'm running xastir compiled from source about 1 year ago. I followed the
> compile script on the xastir wiki pages. Can I follow the same compile
> script (labeled for Jessie) to recompile under Stretch?
>
>
> Thanks  for any assistance.
>
> Steve
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Re: [Xastir] What happened?

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The script checked for Raspbian Jessie (version 8), didn't find it, so
assumed Wheezy (version 7) and installed associated packages. At the time
it was written, those were the only 2 versions available. The PC version of
Stretch uses exactly the same packages as Jessie, so if that's true for
Raspbian, you should be able to change the "8" in line 20 to a "9". Note
there is a dot after the 8 that should be retained.

Lee - K5DAT


On Aug 26, 2017 9:36 PM, "Dexter N Muir"  wrote:

> I haven't been paying particular attention here, and meanwhile Raspbian
> has been upgraded to "Stretch". The auto-build git script from
> 175moonlight.com (for Wheezy and Jessie) builds fine (once you remove the
> "5.1" from the libdb entry - that hasn't been needed for years, on any
> platform AFAIK), and all runs perfectly - then I get to choosing maps -
> WHAT?? only 2 entries for 'online', a .gov US-centric one and a .ca
> Canadian. Do you think you North-Americans are the only Hams doing APRS? My
> long-running stable version under 'Jessie" had a goodly selection,
> including OSM_tiled (I use the mapnik one), and would dearly like it/them
> back. Has there been a block on APRS usage? and if not, what hoops and
> hurdles are involved in restoring this internationally-vital functionality?
>
> And a major fail: closing Xastir down leaves the desktop with no Panel!
> i.e. no menu to close my Pi3 down gracefully - crash city, with risk of
> Card corruption!
>
> More work required, methinks?
>
> 73 de ZL2DEX ...
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Re: [Xastir] Tracking with Xastir using NMEA tracker

[Lee Bengston]

On Jul 3, 2017 3:06 PM, "Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)" 
wrote:

Just FYI, I haven't seen any of the referenced attachments make it through
the list.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

That's because this particular list does not support attachments.  :-)

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Re: [Xastir] GraphicsMagick - missing library file(s)

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:52 PM, davidf4  wrote:

> Lee,
>
> Take a look at your config.log for a section that starts with "checking for
> GraphicsMagick-config".  There will be one, two, or three gcc calls after
> it
> and one of them will be followed by something line "-ldb not found" or
> something like that...
>
> Figure out what package installs that missing element and lather, rinse,
> repeat...
>
> Dave
> KD7MYC
>
>
​Thanks.  ​That reminds me I had to solve a similar problem about a year
ago using the same method.  I guess I've waded though too many router
configs at work since then, so I completely forgot.  Based on what I found
in the log, I was able to determine that libpng-dev was missing.  I had
already moved on to Ubuntu 17.04 as 16.10 was just an interim step.  I
thought while I was on 16.10 I might as well see if there were any issues
with building Xastir.  Once I got to 17.04 the same problem was there, so
it's still good to find the solution.

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Re: [Xastir] GraphicsMagick - missing library file(s)

[Lee Bengston]

Thanks, all of those packages are installed.  The graphicsmagick packages
were upgraded when Ubuntu was upgraded, so either there is something
missing, or something has been installed in an unexpected location.

Lee - K5DAT

On Jul 2, 2017 3:18 PM, "Menga" <giuseppe.me...@polito.it> wrote:

I had a similar problem a week ago.
See the thread  [Xastir] Problems in recompiling xastir on Raspberry pi 3
including GraphicsMagick
The friends on the forum warned me that some of the libraries to be
installed could be missed.
This is the list:
libshp2
libshp-dev
shapelib
graphicsmagick
libgraphicsmagick1-dev
and likely what is missed is:
libdb5.3-dev

When I installed all previous libraries the configuration of Xastir was
able to see GraphicsMagick
Giuseppe
IZ1GCL


-Messaggio originale- From: Lee Bengston
Sent: Sunday, July 2, 2017 8:29 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: [Xastir] GraphicsMagick - missing library file(s)


In attempting to build Xastir after upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10, I
got the following message:

WARNING: *** Cannot find GraphicsMagick library files: Building w/o
GraphicsMagick support.

After a looking at the installed files via Synaptic in /usr/lib in 16.04
vs. 16.10, I didn't see any difference with respect to either the
graphicsmagick package or the libgraphicsmagick1-dev package.  I'm not good
enough at deciphering the configure script to determine which file(s) it
can't find.  There's a separate warning if it can't find "include" files,
so I'm assuming there's no issue with those.

Thanks
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[Xastir] GraphicsMagick - missing library file(s)

[Lee Bengston]

In attempting to build Xastir after upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10, I
got the following message:

WARNING: *** Cannot find GraphicsMagick library files: Building w/o
GraphicsMagick support.

After a looking at the installed files via Synaptic in /usr/lib in 16.04
vs. 16.10, I didn't see any difference with respect to either the
graphicsmagick package or the libgraphicsmagick1-dev package.  I'm not good
enough at deciphering the configure script to determine which file(s) it
can't find.  There's a separate warning if it can't find "include" files,
so I'm assuming there's no issue with those.

Thanks
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[Xastir] new Wiki section for Raspbian Jessie

[Lee Bengston]

It's about time we had this posted.

https://xastir.org/index.php/Installation_Notes#Raspbian


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Re: [Xastir] Xastir on pi3 with kpc3 plus

[Lee Bengston]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:58 PM, David Ranch <xas...@trinnet.net> wrote:

>
> Hello Lee,
>
> Yes, APRX is a nice program but it's only a server.  No GUI, no maps, no
> mechanism to send messages/responses, etc.
>
> ​Agree, but the context was with respect to Tom's point about Xastir not
being the best choice for an IGate. With AX.25 networking configured on the
Pi, Xastir and a separate IGate program can run at the same time, so
there's no loss of maps, messaging, etc.  Also with ldsped on the Pi,
Xastir can be run on any machine on the network and still have access to
the same RF traffic, so there's the added bonus of not needing to run
Xastir on a relatively slow RPi.

>
> As for Direwolf on the Rpi3.. the Rpi3 doesn't have a micrphone jack so
> you'll still need another sound device.  The $7 Syba USB devices are
> considered well supported.
>
> ​Good info, thanks - I have decided to hold off until there's a "Pi 4"​,
so I'm not that up to speed on the details of the Pi 3. These things keep
getting more powerful at a great price. Ultimately I want to take my
KPC9612+ out of the equation and use a "soft" solution, but finding the
time to put a PTT circuit together has been the roadblock.

>
> Ps.  The new Direwolf 1.4 has added it's own AX.25 v2.2 (not just v2.1)
> stack.  When used with the AGW interface, it's a complete solution and you
> no longer need Ldsped!
>

​That's nice!  Given DireWolf supports Igating, in theory a USB sound
dongle + DireWolf + PTT circuit could replace the TNC, APRX, and ldsped​.


> --David
> KI6ZHD
>
>
>
> On 06/27/2017 04:04 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> APRX works well as an igate and/or digipeater, and it's very small thus
>> putting a very light load on the Pi. I have an old model B, though, so
>> your
>> Pi3 may not care as much about that. I also run ldsped on the Pi so other
>> APRS clients can access the radio/TNC.
>>
>> I have 2 prolific based usb to serial adapters. Both would eventually
>> freeze up after continuous use on a 7x24 igate. Switching to an FTDI based
>> adapter fixed that. Lastly I think the Pi3 has its own sound chip, so
>> DireWolf may be a good solution for a TNC, and it also supports igating.
>>
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Re: [Xastir] Xastir on pi3 with kpc3 plus

[Lee Bengston]

APRX works well as an igate and/or digipeater, and it's very small thus
putting a very light load on the Pi. I have an old model B, though, so your
Pi3 may not care as much about that. I also run ldsped on the Pi so other
APRS clients can access the radio/TNC.

I have 2 prolific based usb to serial adapters. Both would eventually
freeze up after continuous use on a 7x24 igate. Switching to an FTDI based
adapter fixed that. Lastly I think the Pi3 has its own sound chip, so
DireWolf may be a good solution for a TNC, and it also supports igating.

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Re: [Xastir] Map Fonts

[Lee Bengston]

The first thing I do is change the station text style to "Text on Black".

[Map - Configure - Station Text Style] via the menu. Changing the font
itself can be a little tricky, and may require additional fonts to be
installed.

Lee - K5DAT



On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Larry Weaver 
wrote:

> I just started running Xastir 2.0.9 on a Pi 3. I have been struggling to
> change the station fonts so they are readable to me. Is there a tutorial or
> anything available to explain how to change or increase font sizes. I have
> searched and read anything I could find but have yet to find anything that
> has worked or that I can understand.
>
>  Thank you
>
>  Larry
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Re: [Xastir] Problems in recompiling xastir on Raspberry pi 3including GraphicsMagick

[Lee Bengston]

libdb5.3-dev

The above package is what you are likely missing. It was in the
installation notes for Debian Jessie in the Xastir Wiki. I'm assuming for
now you are running the version of Raspbian based on Jessie.

The packages in the notes for Debian Jessie should be the same as those
required for Raspbian Jessie. Debian, however, does not use sudo by
default, so that's why the apt-get commands in the Wiki are preceded by "su
-c". Using sudo with the packages in that section should be all that's
needed for Raspbian Jessie.

Lee - K5DAT


On Jun 25, 2017 3:53 PM, "Menga"  wrote:

Jason,
thanks for your suggestions. Almost everthing works, only a small
imperfection:  map caching (Raster map speedups) .. : no
Which missing library is responsible for that?

Giuseppe
IZ1GCL

-Messaggio originale- From: Jason KG4WSV
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 8:10 PM

To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Problems in recompiling xastir on Raspberry pi
3including GraphicsMagick

I have the following packages:

libshp2
libshp-dev
shapelib
graphicsmagick
libgraphicsmagick1-dev

Install these and you should be good to go.

If you insist on building support packages from source, you will have to
consult the documentation for each package to find how to install not only
binaries but the development support files.  This process can and will vary
from package to package.

-Jason

On Jun 25, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Menga  wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
> I tried to install shapelib-dev, but it doesn't exist.
> The first time I followed the instructions, without success, so I started
> to make a mess
> Before cleaning up all things I want to make a last trial.
> Giuseppe
> IZ1GCL
>
> -Messaggio originale- From: Jason KG4WSV
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 7:16 PM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Problems in recompiling xastir on Raspberry pi 3
> including GraphicsMagick
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Menga  wrote:
>> Then I installed new libraries, among them shapelib  (in /usr/bin), I also
>> recompiled anew and installed GraphicsMagick, with libraries located
>> in
>> /home/pi/graphicsmagick-1.3.20/debian/graphicsmagick/usr/lib
>> /mime/packages.
>> But, recompiling xastir, the situation didn't change much: no use of the
>> new
>> Shapelib, no recognition of GraphicsMagick.
>>
>
>
> In addition to runtime packages, you also need development packages.
> I think these are usually called -dev (e.g. shapelib-dev).
>
> If you _installed_ graphicsmagick (or any other package) in your home
> directory, you will need to inform xastir about the non-standard
> location.
>
> Take a look at the ubuntu howto:
>
> http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_14.04-16.04
>
> I think I followed these instructions (starting at "preparing the
> system") pretty much exactly to build on my pi.  I do not recall
> building any support packages from source - all libraries were
> available in the raspbian distribution.
>
>
> -Jason
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Re: [Xastir] Fail to build with ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick on OS X 10.5.8 & 10.7.5

[Lee Bengston]

Brew builds from source, so that took care of the header files that were
missing when you used Macports.  In order for Macports to work you'll need
to find a development package for GraphicksMagick 1.3.25, i.e. install two
packages from Macports instead of just 1.  I don't have a Mac, so I'm
assuming Macports provides binary packages as opposed to downloading source
and building, so there would need to be a separate development package
containing the headers, etc.

Lee - K5DAT


On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 4:42 AM, F1MHV  wrote:

> Hi Curt,
>
> I tried to figure-out how to get these files installed but couldn’t find
> something clear about-it, so i un-installed Macports imagemagick and
> graphicsmagick and tried with Brew to install graphicsmagick and started
> again to build xastir: bingo! it worked. Brew installed graphicsmagick
> 1.3.21 so i tried to un-install-it and via Macports to install versions
> 1.3.25, then i got this:
>
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libGraphicsMagick.3.dylib
>
> Ok so i removed again the Macports version (1.3.25) and re-installed the
> Brew one (1.3.21): all fine 
>
> 73 de Cyril - DF1CHB/AM - F1MHV/M
>
>
>
> > Le 2 mai 2017 à 22:02, Curt, WE7U  a écrit :
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, F1MHV wrote:
> >
> >> configure: WARNING: GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h: present but cannot be
> compiled
> >> configure: WARNING: GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h: check for missing
> prerequisite headers?
> >
> >> configure: WARNING: *** Cannot find ImageMagick include files:
> Building w/o ImageMagick support. ***
> >>
> >> Any ideas how to correct-it?
> >
> > Yea. You need the header files installed so that Xastir can compile it
> in. Look for "-dev" or "-devel" packages with the same names. Install the
> -devel package, then retry the configure step for Xastir.
> >
> > --
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Re: [Xastir] Xastir on Windows 10

[Lee Bengston]

Hi Curt,

Here's a text based step by step for getting Xastir to run in the bash
shell in Windows 10.

-

1. In order to install Xastir via the bash functionality available in
Windows 10, first you need to enable bash in your Windows installation.

Prerequisite:
Your PC must be running a 64-bit version of Windows 10 Anniversary Update
build 14393 or later.

To find your PC's CPU architecture and Windows version/build number, open
Settings>System>About. Look for the OS Build and System Type fields.
The System Type field shows whether your build is a 64 bit version or not,
and the OS Build field will indicate whether you're on build 14393 or later.

A. Turn on Developer Mode

Open Settings -> Update and Security -> For developers
Select the Developer Mode radio button

Note: Settings is one of the new Windows apps that showed up as of Windows
8, so it's not part of the Control Panel

B. Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux feature

Open a PowerShell prompt as administrator and run:

  Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName
Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Alternatively from the Windows GUI...

Use the Cortana search and enter "Turn Windows features on or off", and
select what it finds. A Windows features box will appear.  Scroll down and
check the box for "Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta), and click OK.

C. Reboot - after enabling the subsystem for Linux feature, you must reboot
your computer!

D. Run Bash in Windows

Open a Windows Command prompt and type...
  bash 

A message will be displayed indicating you are about to install Ubuntu on
Windows, and it will prompt you as follows:
  Type y to continue

Enter 'y', which will accept the license and install Ubuntu.

After you have accepted the License, the Ubuntu user-mode image will be
downloaded and a "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" shortcut will be added to your
start menu.

To launch Bash on Windows, either run bash at a cmd/PowerShell
command-prompt, or use the start menu shortcut.

E. Create a Unix User

The first time you install Bash on Windows, you will be prompted to create
a UNIX username and password. UNIX username and password can be different
from, and has no relationship to your Windows username and password.


2. Xastir is a graphical application, so the next step is to enable running
graphical applications in your Linux installation

It is possible to run graphical Linux applications in Windows 10, but it's
not officially supported.  Users of Xastir have done it successfully,
however.

A. Install an X Server

There are several different X servers you can install on Windows. The Xming
server is recommended here simply because this Wiki author tried it, and it
worked well.
The Xming server can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming.
Download and install it - all that's needed is to accept the defaults when
installing. After accepting the defaults, Xming should automatically launch
and run in your system tray, waiting for you to run graphical programs.

B. Install Xastir

As of this writing, the beta bash feature in Windows 10 installs Ubuntu
version 14.04, so launch you bash shell in Windows, and follow the steps in
the Xastir Wiki to install Xastir.

http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_14.04-16.04

C. Set the Display Environment Variable

set the “DISPLAY” environment variable to point at the X server running on
your Windows 10 PC. If you don’t do this, Xastir will fail to launch. To do
this issue the following command in your bash shell:
  export DISPLAY=:0

D. Run Xastir!

Still at the command prompt in your bash shell type the following:
  xastir &

Enjoy!



On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Curt Mills <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have any notes at all or can quickly describe it to me in an email,
> I'll start a page and it can get fleshed out later.
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'll see what I can do this weekend.  The day job + family combo has been
> > wiping me out during the week.
> >
> > Lee - K5DAT
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2017 11:24 AM, "Curt Mills" <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just had a direct query asking about this. Any write-up forthcoming
> from
> > > either of you?
> > >
> > > If someone sends me a text file with the writeup I'd be glad to get a
> > > minimum-formatting version up on the Xastir wiki. We can "pretty it up"
> > > later.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was able to get Xastir working in Windows 10 via the new bash
> > > > functionality and the Xming server using these 3 links:
> > > >
> &

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on Windows 10

[Lee Bengston]

I'll see what I can do this weekend.  The day job + family combo has been
wiping me out during the week.

Lee - K5DAT

On Feb 6, 2017 11:24 AM, "Curt Mills" <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just had a direct query asking about this. Any write-up forthcoming from
> either of you?
>
> If someone sends me a text file with the writeup I'd be glad to get a
> minimum-formatting version up on the Xastir wiki. We can "pretty it up"
> later.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I was able to get Xastir working in Windows 10 via the new bash
> > functionality and the Xming server using these 3 links:
> >
> > 1) This shows how to get the Win10 Anniversary Update.
> > https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/08/02/
> > how-to-get-the-windows-10-anniversary-update/
> >
> > 2) This shows how to get bash up and running.  You can ignore the part
> > about being a member of the Windows Insider program - I did, and
> everything
> > works fine.
> > https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/install_guide
> >
> > 3) This covers getting graphical Linux applications to work.
> > http://www.howtogeek.com/261575/how-to-run-graphical-
> > linux-desktop-applications-from-windows-10s-bash-shell/
> >
> > HowToGeek recommends Xming, so that's what I installed, but we know from
> > Hans_Peter's message that VcXsrv works as well.  After installing Xming I
> > did not need to do anything with a file named
> > /etc/dbus-1/session.conffile.  I thought it was amazingly easy to install
> > Xming and issue the command '​export DISPLAY=:0' in the bash shell in
> order
> > to display GUI applications via Xming.
> >
> > Once the above 3 steps are done it's only a matter of installing Xastir
> in
> > Ubuntu 14.04 according to the Wiki at http://www.xastir.org.
> >
> > I have no serial ports on the laptop on which I did the above.  I have
> this
> > new instance of Xastir connected to a Raspberry Pi via an AGWPE
> interface.
> > The Pi is running Ldsped and is connected to a hardware TNC, which is
> > connected to the VHF side of a dual band radio.
> >
> > I'll see if I can get something in the Wiki this weekend.  I do like this
> > better than using a VM.
> >
> > Lee - K5DAT
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Hans-Peter Friedhelm Oeste <
> > hoe...@shaw.ca
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > I will see about doing a better write-up in the next week.
> > > Meanwhile here's a couple of URL's to get started.
> > > To force the install of Anniversary Update:
> > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12387/windows-10-
> update-histor
> > > y
> > > Then, you must turn on Developer Mode via Settings > Update & security
> > > > For developers. Next,
> > > search for "Windows Features" and choose "Turn Windowsfeatures on or
> > > off" and enable
> > > Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta). After that, to install Bash, you
> > > must open the Windows
> > > Command Prompt and type "bash."
> > >
> > > While you can use XMing, or Cygwin/x or XLaunch, I installed VcXsrv
> > > from
> > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ which seems to be a XLaunch
> > > derivative.
> > > Works well.
> > > Then peruse the following thread from reddit.
> > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4ea4w4/fyi_
> you_can_run_gui_
> > > linux_apps_from_bash/
> > > Basically change file the /etc/dbus-1/session.conffile so it says
> > > tcp:host=127.0.0.1,port=10002
> > > and add to bashrc "
> > > ​​
> > > export DISPLAY=:0" -- .You can do this from the bash
> > > shell or create a custom .bashrc.
> > > There another global version somewhere in the /etc directory but I'm
> > > unable to hunt it down at the moment.
> > >
> > > Restart bash and then go to the xastir ubuntu wiki and run the install
> > > script you'll find there.  Works well.
> > > Congrats to the author of that scripting masterpiece.
> > >
> > > Note: Before you start xastir you need to start the xserver.  I found
> > > it sat in my system tray waiting for a connection
> > > to start.
> > >
> > > You will likely get some dbus errors but they can be ignored.
> > >
> > > One of my next projects will also be to see if ax25 can get gotten to
> > > run, although I've never used it, so that'll
> &g

Re: [Xastir] Installing Xastir on Raspberry Pi Model 2B

[Lee Bengston]

Christmas is coming...  :-)


On Dec 12, 2016 4:21 PM, "Curt Mills" <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

So obviously the correct solution, as always, is MORE PIE!

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Dexter N Muir <d...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > unless you really need to learn 'from the ground up' I'd suggest, nay
> > > recommend, Lee KD5AT's scripts at 175moonlight.com.
> > >
> >
> > +1 for Lee's script - I was looking it up so I could suggest it.
> >
> > longer answer, check this out:
> >
> > http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_14.04-16.04
> >
> >
> > yeah it's for ubuntu not raspbian, but it worked for me.
> >
> > -Jason
> > kg4wsv
>
>
> ​
> ​http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-git-build.sh
>
> ​The aforementioned script is available via the more detailed link above.
> I believe Dexter verified that it worked in Raspbian/Jessie, but I can't
> say I remember for sure.  At the time the script was written, I had
already
> installed Arch Linux on my Raspberry Pi, so I didn't have the right
> platform to test with.
>
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Re: [Xastir] Installing Xastir on Raspberry Pi Model 2B

[Lee Bengston]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jason KG4WSV  wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Dexter N Muir  wrote:
>
> > unless you really need to learn 'from the ground up' I'd suggest, nay
> > recommend, Lee KD5AT's scripts at 175moonlight.com.
> >
>
> +1 for Lee's script - I was looking it up so I could suggest it.
>
> longer answer, check this out:
>
> http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_14.04-16.04
>
>
> yeah it's for ubuntu not raspbian, but it worked for me.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv


​
​http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-git-build.sh

​The aforementioned script is available via the more detailed link above.
I believe Dexter verified that it worked in Raspbian/Jessie, but I can't
say I remember for sure.  At the time the script was written, I had already
installed Arch Linux on my Raspberry Pi, so I didn't have the right
platform to test with.

Thanks,
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Re: [Xastir] New member Intro and question

[Lee Bengston]

On Sep 29, 2016 9:16 PM, "Joel Vazquez, AE4SR" 
wrote:
>
> One more quick question, about the wx doppler overlay, by any chance is
> there a way to use the animated doppler radar image instead of the static
images?

I was not even aware there were static images working with Xastir, so I
can't answer that question.

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Re: [Xastir] New member Intro and question

[Lee Bengston]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Joel Vazquez, AE4SR <
ae4sr.radi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Lee for the reply,
> I check the conf file and the entries are the same, just as yours.  I
> delete the file from /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/  .
>
> ​OK, so that's all good.
​


> I just try to run the script again and, after the update part, this is the
> outcome:
>
> ​--​


>
> fatal: destination path 'Xastir' already exists and is not an empty
> directory.
>
> ​I believe that revealed a difference between Git and CVS​.  I'm thinking
Git must check for an empty directory before it downloads Xastir.  An easy
fix for now would be to delete your ~/src/Xastir directory and re-run the
script.

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Re: [Xastir] New member Intro and question

[Lee Bengston]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Joel Vazquez, AE4SR <
ae4sr.radi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are no still maps, and I run it this morning after the reply.  I
> thought the script should put install them, but I was wrong.
>
> Joel, AE4SR
>

​"make install" issued either manually or via the script will install the
OSM map geo files in ​"/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online".  Is that where
you deleted them from (and where you were expecting them to be reinstalled
by the script)?  If you were running either an older version of Xastir or a
binary version previously, the map files would have been installed
previously in a different location.  If that's the case you may have a
leftover configuration file pointing to the wrong location for the map
files.

If you issue...
cat ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf | grep /usr

The result below is what's expected.  If the paths to those locations are
different in your case, you have an old xastir.cnf file that needs to be
updated.  If that's the case you can edit the ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf
file and change the paths to match what is shown below, or you can simply
delete the file and let Xastir create a new one.  In that case you would
have to re-configure your station settings, etc.

PREVIEWER_PROGRAM:/usr/bin/gv
AUTO_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
ALERT_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/Counties
SELECTED_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
SYMBOLS_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols
SOUND_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
GNIS_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.gnis
GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/geocode

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Re: [Xastir] New member Intro and question

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Joel Vazquez, AE4SR <
ae4sr.radi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> My name is Joel, AE4SR, located in Miami, FL and I've been using Xasrir for
> quite some time, but just new to the mailing list.
>
> Got a question, since I think a year ago that the online maps from OSM stop
> working, I haven't found a solution, either online or offline, for it.  Can
> some body tell me what options I have?
>

​Only some of the (OSM) online map choices have stopped working, and I
think that happened longer than a year ago.

In your map chooser the options "Online/OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo" and
"Online/OSM_tiled_cycle.geo" should still work - they never stopped
working.  If they don't work, there must be an issue related to your
installation of Xastir.  I see from another message you are on version
2.0.9, so it would not be a problem related to using an old version of
Xastir.  It would be best to confirm that the options above do not work for
you.

When you click "help, About" in Xastir, does it show either GraphicsMagick
or ImageMagick in the list of Libraries used?

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Re: [Xastir] anyone looked at 2015 TIGER files?

[Lee Bengston]

Thanks Jason.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who is interested in your
results.

Lee - K5DAT

On Sep 18, 2016 5:52 PM, "Jason KG4WSV"  wrote:

> ... and to close out this little monolog, i finally noticed a) a TIGER
> shapefile that contains roads, rail, water, etc in a single file
> (EDGES), and b) someone already created a dbfawk for it.  i'm off to
> hack at that one a bit, to make the colors, lifestyles, etc match what
> i like.
>
> -Jason
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Re: [Xastir] New Online Maps in Git (Canada & U.S.)

[Lee Bengston]

On Aug 19, 2016 12:52 PM, "David A Aitcheson" 
wrote:
>
> Dale,
>
> Try these, they work for me.
>
> Dave KB3EFS
>
>
Try what?  :-)

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Re: [Xastir] Xastir on Windows 10

[Lee Bengston]

I was able to get Xastir working in Windows 10 via the new bash
functionality and the Xming server using these 3 links:

1) This shows how to get the Win10 Anniversary Update.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/08/02/how-to-get-the-windows-10-anniversary-update/

2) This shows how to get bash up and running.  You can ignore the part
about being a member of the Windows Insider program - I did, and everything
works fine.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/install_guide

3) This covers getting graphical Linux applications to work.
http://www.howtogeek.com/261575/how-to-run-graphical-linux-desktop-applications-from-windows-10s-bash-shell/

HowToGeek recommends Xming, so that's what I installed, but we know from
Hans_Peter's message that VcXsrv works as well.  After installing Xming I
did not need to do anything with a file named
/etc/dbus-1/session.conffile.  I thought it was amazingly easy to install
Xming and issue the command '​export DISPLAY=:0' in the bash shell in order
to display GUI applications via Xming.

Once the above 3 steps are done it's only a matter of installing Xastir in
Ubuntu 14.04 according to the Wiki at http://www.xastir.org.

I have no serial ports on the laptop on which I did the above.  I have this
new instance of Xastir connected to a Raspberry Pi via an AGWPE interface.
The Pi is running Ldsped and is connected to a hardware TNC, which is
connected to the VHF side of a dual band radio.

I'll see if I can get something in the Wiki this weekend.  I do like this
better than using a VM.

Lee - K5DAT


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Hans-Peter Friedhelm Oeste  wrote:

> I will see about doing a better write-up in the next week.
> Meanwhile here's a couple of URL's to get started.
> To force the install of Anniversary Update:
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12387/windows-10-update-histor
> y
> Then, you must turn on Developer Mode via Settings > Update & security
> > For developers. Next,
> search for "Windows Features" and choose "Turn Windowsfeatures on or
> off" and enable
> Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta). After that, to install Bash, you
> must open the Windows
> Command Prompt and type "bash."
>
> While you can use XMing, or Cygwin/x or XLaunch, I installed VcXsrv
> from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ which seems to be a XLaunch
> derivative.
> Works well.
> Then peruse the following thread from reddit.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4ea4w4/fyi_you_can_run_gui_
> linux_apps_from_bash/
> Basically change file the /etc/dbus-1/session.conffile so it says
> tcp:host=127.0.0.1,port=10002
> and add to bashrc "
> ​​
> export DISPLAY=:0" -- .You can do this from the bash
> shell or create a custom .bashrc.
> There another global version somewhere in the /etc directory but I'm
> unable to hunt it down at the moment.
>
> Restart bash and then go to the xastir ubuntu wiki and run the install
> script you'll find there.  Works well.
> Congrats to the author of that scripting masterpiece.
>
> Note: Before you start xastir you need to start the xserver.  I found
> it sat in my system tray waiting for a connection
> to start.
>
> You will likely get some dbus errors but they can be ignored.
>
> One of my next projects will also be to see if ax25 can get gotten to
> run, although I've never used it, so that'll
> make it interesting.  I've always used xastir in a listener mode.
>
> Hope this helps some-one get started.
>
> Hans de VE7OES
> On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 06:38 -0700, Curt Mills wrote:
> > Someone should do a write-up of it and add it to the Wiki pages. It
> > sounds
> > like an easier Windows option than the others we currently have, by
> > far. If
> > someone writes it up, I or another person with Wiki edit capability
> > can add
> > it.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Hans-Peter Friedhelm Oeste
> > haw.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Well some-one had to do it.
> > >
> > > I have Windows 10 and I forced the update to Anniversary
> > > Edition.  When
> > > you choose the Developer option, you can now choose to install
> > > their
> > > beta linux (Bash) subsytem which is a ubuntu system.
> > >
> > > Yup I installed it and it works great for commandline stuff.  But
> > > with
> > > a couple of minor tweaks that can be found online, and the
> > > installation
> > > of an X windows system, and there's at least 3 free ones, you can
> > > run
> > > gui Xwindows programs.  There are issues with some programs
> > > but..##SELECTION_END##
> > >
> > > Because the subsystem is Ubuntu based, I used the instructions in
> > > the
> > > wiki, specifically the great script that does all the work for you.
> > >  And it works flawlessly.  And running xastir, it starts up and
> > > runs
> > > flawlessly!  Go figure!  So Windows 10 can now be part of 'our'
> > > ecosystem.  Who'd of thunk it.
> > >
> > > Hans Oeste
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Re: [Xastir] New Online Maps in Git (Canada & U.S.)

[Lee Bengston]

Did you try Map-Configure-Reindex All Maps?

I hope I remembered that right - not on the screen now.

Lee K5DAT

On Aug 17, 2016 11:40 PM, "David Ranch"  wrote:

>
> Hey Curt,
>
> I'm running the newest Git but I don't see these in the Map Chooser.  Is
> there anything I need to enable them?
>
> --David
> KI6ZHD
>
>
>
> On 08/09/2016 12:32 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
>
>> I should have made this into its own thread. Am now doing so.
>>
>> New online maps in Git:
>>
>> Online/geogratis.gc.ca/
>>  National.geo
>>  Regional.geo
>>  Sub_national.geo
>>  Sub_regional.geo
>>
>> Online/nationalmap.gov/
>>  Aerial.geo
>>  Contours.geo
>>  Hydrography.geo
>>  ShadedRelief.geo
>>  Topo1-10.geo
>>  TopoRelief1-7.geo
>>  Transportation.geo
>>
>> Note that the 1-7 and 1-10 refer to zoom levels at which they'll work, so
>> zoom in pretty close for those two maps. Enjoy! I particularly like
>> Aerial.geo at zoom 1.
>>
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Re: [Xastir] New Online Maps in Git (Canada & U.S.)

[Lee Bengston]

Thanks Curt! Gonna have to try those out when I get a chance.

Lee - K5DAT

On Aug 9, 2016 3:32 PM, "Curt Mills"  wrote:

> I should have made this into its own thread. Am now doing so.
>
> New online maps in Git:
>
> Online/geogratis.gc.ca/
> National.geo
> Regional.geo
> Sub_national.geo
> Sub_regional.geo
>
> Online/nationalmap.gov/
> Aerial.geo
> Contours.geo
> Hydrography.geo
> ShadedRelief.geo
> Topo1-10.geo
> TopoRelief1-7.geo
> Transportation.geo
>
> Note that the 1-7 and 1-10 refer to zoom levels at which they'll work, so
> zoom in pretty close for those two maps. Enjoy! I particularly like
> Aerial.geo at zoom 1.
>
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Re: [Xastir] Changes to the Xastir compile/install procedure

[Lee Bengston]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Curt Mills  wrote:

> Check out "README.GIT". I included the relevant portion of it below,
> detailing the new compile/install procedure for Xastir. The main difference
> is that we make a "build" directory one up from the Xastir directory and do
> the configure/make/make install from there.
>
> What this allows:
> 1) Creating multiple build directories, one for each possible target,
> without the builds interfering.
> 2) Keeping the source directories pristine (no *.o files there!)
>
> We've tweaked the update-xastir script and the README's in Git to
> correspond.
>
> What we could use help with is all of the install instructions on the
> Xastir Wiki for various OS'es. The CVS instructions need to be converted to
> the new Git instructions.
>
> Any help appreciated!
>

​I wrote a lot of those, but that was when I had a Wiki account.​


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[Xastir] Mapquest Option going away

[Lee Bengston]

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-June/076106.html

Unfortunately it looks like the Mapquest option for Online Maps will be
going away July 11th.


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Re: [Xastir] I'm back.. and I'm lost.

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On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Steve Huston  wrote:

> Been off the air with APRS for about five years (antenna reached out
> and touched by a maple, which got trimmed back today and then new
> hardware put up on the house).  I looked on xastir.org and saw that
> compiling is probably the best way to go to get running again, but
> wasn't sure which version to grab.  On a whim I looked in macports and
> was able to build 2.0.4 easily, which I now have running to at least
> prove things are working.
>
> Where should I be grabbing the latest (and/or stable) source to
> compile?  I see mention from Tom earlier in the month that 2.1.0 is
> the current stable, but I don't see a tag for that when I'm looking at
> the CVS tree, in fact if I choose the stable tag everything looks to
> be three years old.  Or is 2.0.4 not too bad, and I should be fine
> with it?
>
> Sorry to be an old noob... maybe now that I've got something in the
> air for APRS again I'll pay more attention to this list I've been
> subscribed to for years :D
>

​http://xastir.org/index.php/Notes:CVS

I always use the following two commands to grab the latest version after
creating the .cvsrc​ file as explained in the notes at the link above.

cvs -d:pserver:anonym...@xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir login

cvs -d:pserver:anonym...@xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir co xastir

I don't have a Mac, so I'm not sure what the best method is for retrieving
dependent packages.

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Re: [Xastir] Error during compile

[Lee Bengston]

On Jun 7, 2016 2:25 AM, "Tim Billingsley"  wrote:
>
> > I was just following the tutorial on install the daily build.
> > I will try with 2.1.0 and if that fails I will fall back and punt.
> >
>
>
> That got it. Thanks. Only issue now is it said it installed without
> GraphicsMagic support  Oh well.

Try installing libwebp-dev.  16.04 most likely has the same problem as
15.10. The dev package for graphicsmagick is not installing that package as
a dependency as it should.

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Re: [Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF

[Lee Bengston]

Xastir has a script that uses gdal to convert GeoPDF to GeoTIFF.  Tom Russo
wrote it a few years ago and refined it much more recently.  There was
quite a bit of discussion about it not too long ago.

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On Mar 21, 2016 11:12 AM, "Curt Mills"  wrote:

> As I recall the geoPDF's have multiple layers that can be enabled/disabled
> for viewing. I'm not sure whether these files can be directly used within
> other programs w/o having to implement Postscript and a bunch of other
> stuff. Would be worth investigating though.
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Eric Christensen <
> e...@christensenplace.us>
> wrote:
>
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA256
> >
> > I recently learned that USGS will no longer release GeoTIFF-formatted
> > map files in favor of GeoPDF[0].  This will likely cause problems for
> > Xastir.  I did locate a instructions for converting the GeoPDF to
> > GeoTIFF[1].
> >
> > [0] http://www.usgs.gov/faq/taxonomy/term/10413
> > [1] http://www.usgs.gov/faq/node/3704
> >
> > - --Eric
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Re: [Xastir] Undoing get-maptools

[Lee Bengston]

On Mar 16, 2016 11:56 AM, "Eric Christensen" 
wrote:
>
> I was using the packaged version in Debian...  uninstalled that and
> decided to go with the development version (from source).  Now I've lost
> ImageMagick capabilities.  *sigh*
>
> I continue to work...

Is your configuration file in the hidden ~/.xastir directory still pointing
to things in /usr instead of /usr/local (left over from the packaged
version)?

Lee - K5DAT

>
> On 03/16/2016 10:19 AM, Curt Mills wrote:
> > Have you tried a "make clean" and "make" "make install" for Xastir? When
> > you switch libraries out from underneath it, you often need to
recompile.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Eric Christensen <
e...@christensenplace.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Is there an easy way to undo 'get-maptools'?  I ran it yesterday and
> > this morning I cannot start xastir because:
> >
> > xastir: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdal.so.1: undefined symbol:
> > pj_ctx_alloc
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> >
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Re: [Xastir] Server slow

[Lee Bengston]

​At one time Javier, K4JH, had offered to host the Xastir.org site (see
below).  That was about 2.5 years ago, so I'm not sure if the offer still
stands.​

Lee - K5DAT
---
Javier Henderson jav...@kjsl.org via
 tapr.org
8/22/13
to TAPR
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Keith VE7GDH  wrote:

> Kevin K1KWP wrote...
>
> it seems like the xastir.org web site (and the wiki, and the mail
>> lists, and) have been down at least the last 2 days (when I
>> noticed). does anyone know what is going on?
>>
>
> It does appear to be down. I can't ping astir.org or 153.16.26.194,
> but I can ping their DNS servers. Google last successfully indexed
> it on Aug 12 2013.
>

I offer again to host this... at a commercial datacenter, with excellent
connectivity for both IPv4 and IPv6...

73,
-jav k4jh

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Re: [Xastir] Undoing get-maptools

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Eric Christensen <e...@christensenplace.us>
wrote:

>
>
> On 03/16/2016 12:09 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> > On Mar 16, 2016 11:56 AM, "Eric Christensen" <e...@christensenplace.us>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I was using the packaged version in Debian...  uninstalled that and
> >> decided to go with the development version (from source).  Now I've lost
> >> ImageMagick capabilities.  *sigh*
> >>
> >> I continue to work...
> >
> > Is your configuration file in the hidden ~/.xastir directory still
> pointing
> > to things in /usr instead of /usr/local (left over from the packaged
> > version)?
> >
> > Lee - K5DAT
>
> No, I did catch that problem and removed (renamed) it so it wouldn't be
> point to the old system files.  I think I'm just missing a package
> somewhere.
>
​
Assuming for now you're using Debian Jessie, there is not a specific
Installation note in the Wiki for that version, but I did write a script to
automate the installation (from source).  You could either try the script
or just look at what it downloads to see the dependent packages.

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Re: [Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

[Lee Bengston]

To Xastir development team,

Please use the program as much as possible for your own use so that bugs
annoy you and get fixed. :-)

Lee - K5DAT

P. S.  Thanks for the updates, Curt.  My 8 year old daughter likes to watch
the planes on screen and then runs to the door to look outside when she
knows one is coming close.
On Mar 11, 2016 3:33 PM, "Curt Mills"  wrote:

> Changes checked in. Note the new instructions for dump1090 (which fork of
> it to use) as well as new command-line parameters for starting it up.
> Switch to that and you'll receive a lot more airplane packets on the RTL
> dongles.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Curt Mills  wrote:
>
> > Never mind. There's a menu option called: "Include Expired Data" which
> > makes expired data pop up again if people want to see it, so I'll just
> make
> > the callsigns and other bits attached to symbols go away when the symbol
> > ghosts if that option is not enabled. Keeps the screen uncluttered.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Curt Mills  wrote:
> >
> >> This week I fixed a bug having to do with proximity circles/hurricane
> >> circles/tracked-station circles not ghosting when the symbol ghosts. I
> >> haven't checked in those changes yet but they are forthcoming.
> >>
> >> There are most likely additional "things" attached to symbols which do
> >> not ghost, so I'll be looking at most of the rest of the things that
> attach
> >> to symbols with this in mind (in draw_symbols.c mostly).
> >>
> >> Question: Should the callsign/tactical-callsign ghost as well?  If so,
> >> should it go to reduced brightness like the symbol, or should it
> disappear
> >> altogether?
> >>
> >> Right now I'm leaning towards the latter. When I'm tracking airplanes
> and
> >> the symbols ghost, the callsigns stick around at full brightness
> cluttering
> >> up the screen until the station gets deleted entirely from the database.
> >>
> >> BTW: I have quite a few more improvements for the airplane tracking,
> >> including decoding a LOT more airplane packets via a different fork of
> >> dump1090 + new command-line parameters to go with it. I'll check those
> in
> >> soon too.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> http://wetnet.net/~we7u
> >> http://www.sarguydigital.com
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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>
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Re: [Xastir] Ok, who's gating the ADS stuff to the Internet?

[Lee Bengston]

The revised script that Curt put in CVS last Friday addresses this.  The
new script increments the SSID if the call + SSID used for object injection
matches the one in use by Xastir.  The gating into the internet or RF only
happens when there's a match.

Lee - K5DAT
On Mar 2, 2016 7:43 PM, "davidf4"  wrote:

> The ADS stuff (or perhaps the object code) also needs a "time since
> heard/tx'ed" function so if it is being Tx'ed, it cancels the object if it
> hasn't been heard in 10-15 min...that should then remove the trail and
> clean
> up the display a little also...rather than waiting for the standard fade
> out
> and then disappear code...
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ken Koster [mailto:n7...@wetnet.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 4:31 PM
>
> I'm testing Curt's software and forgot that my normal setup also feeds the
> internet.
>
> I count this as a bug (or feature request).   We need a way to selectively
> determine what gets fed back out for data like this where you really only
> want local display.
>
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Re: [Xastir] Ok, who's gating the ADS stuff to the Internet?

[Lee Bengston]

If you are seeing them in Xastir you should be able to see what callsign is
associated with the objects.

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On Mar 2, 2016 7:11 PM, "davidf4"  wrote:

> My screen has exploded with all sorts of worthless airplane trails around
> SeaTac...
>
> I'm only connected to Rotate and to filtered Firenet so it has to be fed
> from someone local to Seattle since the tracks all end at a reasonable
> distance from Seattle...
>
> Dave
> KD7MYC
>
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Re: [Xastir] Please Turn Off Modifiers

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Skyler F  wrote:

> Can someone please explain this message, and what the intention is?
>
> Modifiers Found!
> Please turn off CAPS lock / Num lock/ scroll lock / other modifiers.
>
> I swear I don't have any of those turned on, but I get it every time I
> right click on the map.
>

​I have to admit that's an annoying "feature".  My netbook doesn't have
lights or any indicators on the keys that show whether or not caps lock,
​scroll lock, or number lock are on or off.  So if I get that message I
often have no idea which key is the one I need to change.

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Re: [Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

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On Feb 25, 2016 5:04 PM, "Curt Mills"  wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <
> ldeff...@homeside.to> wrote:
>
> > In other words, it IS easy to accidentally gate these new packets to RF
> > and/or the APRS-IS?  All it takes is using the same callsign-SSID on the
> > tool and xastir?
>
>
> Yes.  I was wr...  I was wr...
>
> I may have made a mistake.

I had no radio connection when I tried it out earlier today.  Also the
screen got too cluttered with stations when I had an IS connection up, so I
shut that off after a relatively short time.  After that I left it running,
and it still is, but fortunately with no RF or Internet in the mix.

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Re: [Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

[Lee Bengston]

Update - my new dongle works, and the script works so I can see the planes
on a Xastir local display.  Thanks for sharing this, Curt.

Fyi for those that want to try it out, this is what it took in Ubuntu 14.04.

In order to get dump1090 up and running, I had to build librtlsdr first,
which I got from here, https://github.com/steve-m/librtlsdr.

Building librtlsdr required installing the libusb-1.0-0-dev package from
the Ubuntu repo.  Also if you don't have the cmake package installed you
will need that as well.

Lastly I had to blacklist an RTL kernel module by adding  the following
line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu

I'm seeing some planes over 100 miles away.

Lee - K5DAT


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Curt Mills  wrote:

> I added a new script today called "ads-b.pl". It must be edited to add
> your
> callsign and passcode to actually use it. Perhaps I or someone else will
> turn those into command-line options soon so you don't have to edit it.
>
> Anyway: If you have an RTL SDR dongle ($10 to $20), you can run "dump1090"
> with certain parameters to watch airplane positions from ADS-B. This new
> perl script connects to that program and turns them into APRS Item packets,
> then injects them into Xastir via "xastir_udp_client".
>
> If you have TWO dongles, or want to watch the 978MHz frequency instead,
> there are ways to do that using "dump978" in conjunction with "dump1090". I
> haven't tested whether positions from "dump978" end up making it all the
> way to Xastir yet using the above script in conjunction with those other
> two programs. If someone tests this, please let us all know, else I'll get
> to doing that eventually (I have two dongles, three if I borrow my son's).
>
> Instructions are at the top of the script.
>
> Enjoy!
>
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Re: [Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

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On Feb 23, 2016 2:25 PM, "Curt Mills" <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I hadn't actually tried the script yet when I wrote that - had just
looked
> > at the code.  It worked if I entered my callsign and passcode at the
> > command line, but it gave me errors about uninitialized ​variables if I
> > didn't.  It was easy to fix that, and since I was playing with the code,
> > anyway, I added the capability to grab the callsign from the xastir.cnf
> > file and use callpass to generate the passcode.
> >
>
> I intentionally released the code w/o that capability due to the
> possibility of injecting too many objects at once into either RF or the
> INET feeds. I'd rather people think about/know what they're doing WRT the
> callsign (manually).

OK, but we know the script doesn't use the RF option, anyway.  On the INET
side, does injecting via the udp client automatically send packets to the
IS server if there is a connection to one, i.e in order to make sure the
data is limited to a local display do we need to be sure there is no
Internet interface enabled?

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Re: [Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Curt Mills <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I added a new script today called "ads-b.pl". It must be edited to add
>> your
>> callsign and passcode to actually use it. Perhaps I or someone else will
>> turn those into command-line options soon so you don't have to edit it.
>>
>> ​I see someone (WE7U?) has already changed it so callsign and passcode
> are command line arguments.  Also if they are not entered the user is
> prompted for them - nice.​
>
>
>
​I hadn't actually tried the script yet when I wrote that - had just looked
at the code.  It worked if I entered my callsign and passcode at the
command line, but it gave me errors about uninitialized ​variables if I
didn't.  It was easy to fix that, and since I was playing with the code,
anyway, I added the capability to grab the callsign from the xastir.cnf
file and use callpass to generate the passcode.

http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/ads-b.zip

The version available via the link above works as follows:

- The user can still enter callsign and passcode as arguments when
executing the script, and those will be applied if entered.

- If executed with no arguments the script uses the callsign found in
~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf and uses callpass to generate the passcode.

- If executed with a callsign argument only (no passcode), the script uses
the callsign entered by the user and uses callpass to generate the passcode.

Yeah, probably inefficient code compared to what the hot shots can do, but
it works, so I'll declare it ugly but effective.  :-)

This looks like fun stuff to play with, so I ordered a dongle.

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[Xastir] Xastir build scripts

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http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir.html

New (and a few old) scripts for downloading and building the most current
version of Xastir are posted and available via the link above.  OS's
supported are as follows:

Ubuntu 15.10 (and older)
Debian 8.x (Jessie)
Debian 6.x (Squeeze)

Raspbian - both the original Wheezy based version and the newer Jessie
based version.

The best way to get the latest version of Xastir including the most recent
bug fixes and features is to download the source code from CVS and compile
it.  The scripts make it easier to do that, and they also speed up the
process.

Note: the script for the Debian Jessie based version of Raspian has not
been tested, so I would appreciate feedback on it.

Thanks,
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Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 199, Issue 1

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On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Dexter N Muir  wrote:
>
>
> Thanks folks.
>
>Once again, Google to the rescue: 'debian configure sudo' gave a 'fix'
> reply that gave the info. Done, and much happier. Now with sudo working,
> update and upgrade complete properly. Still no benefit to screen res -
> noted some missing bits from the non-free as the update flew past - and
> still no sane shutdown :(
>Further to the script, Lee: libgraphicsmagick1-dev needed.
> Graphicsmagick itself is just the runtime - is it provided in a fresh
> install anyway? and did 6 haul in the -dev with it?


​I think you are referring to my old script for Debian 6 (Squeeze)​.  That
script did not install GraphicsMagick period but instead installed
Imagemagick.  In that case the development package was libmagickcore-dev.
That worked fine for Debian Squeeze.  At that time Imagemagick and
GraphicsMagick were more interchangeable.  I'm sure I could have used
either one - was more or less a coin flip.


> I didn't note before starting this adventure. And yes, too many root
> passwords! Working sudo might cure that by replacing the 'su -c's? And are
> they all necessary anyway? (just a 'cosmetic', as the Italian auto industry
> puts it: "omologato" :) ).
>

I would expect using sudo would be smoother due to less password prompting,
but if I write the script to assume sudo is configured it forces users to
configure sudo first before using it.​


>
>Finally, a working 2.0.7 in Jessie! Thanks, all, and Lee: a working
> script headed your way off-list. You might want to tidy it up before
> release into the wild. Diffs there might propagate into Ubuntu and Raspbian
> (and other?) scripts, too?
>
> ​Thanks for sending the Debian script - I'll take a look.  I don't
currently have a Debian Jessie installation to play with, but I could put
together a virtual machine.

Regarding Ubuntu, I have had a new version of the Ubuntu script working in
15.10 for a few days but didn't finalize the comments and post it until
today.  I wanted to give it a final acid test on a clean installation of
15.10 first - did that in a virtual machine a few hours ago.  The new
script be found via the following link:

​http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir.html

​When all was said and done, the only 2 changes applicable to version 15.10
as compared to 14.04 were 1) remove libxp-dev and 2) add libwebp-dev.  The
new script should also work in versions 14.10 and 15.04.  My observations
using those releases briefly was that no relevant package names had changed
from 14.04 to 14.10 to 15.04.  I had manually built Xastir successfully in
both 14.10 and 15.04 using the 14.04 installation notes from the Wiki.

BR,
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Re: [Xastir] Kubuntu _and_ Raspberry Pi build fails - Debian attempt

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Dexter N Muir  wrote:

>
>> OK, still investigating. I've been wondering if Debian Jessie will work.
> Sadly, no. I've found it to be a pig! My hardware (i3, hp, so not too
> shabby or too slick either) doesn't work with bog-standard net drivers, so
> re-do from start with 4GB Try/Install stick, find out how to get net
> working (by updating sources.list with non-free), and use it to install to
> HD. Days' effort and research. Then find the Debian script. Sorry, Lee,
> yours is for 6 (Squeeze). You've built a 7, so something must have worked.


​I know I've built Xastir successfully in Debian 7​ (Wheezy).  I just
didn't make a script for it other than the one for the Raspian version for
the Raspberry Pi.



> Try the script anyway. No go. Edit: 6 and Squeeze become 8 and Jessie. Try
> it. Nope, edit again. libdb doesn't need numbers, simple - but lesstif is
> deprecated. OK, change to motif (limotif0 for runtime? and libmotif-dev).
> Try again. Build, but no raster or OSM in chooser. imagemagick not working?
> Where to now? I'm about at the limit of my skills - and patience!
>

​It sounds like ​Debian Jessie may have the same problem with the
ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick dev packages that is present in Ubuntu 15.10.


> Debian doesn't seem to want to use sudo. Several su -c's in script is
> obtrusive. I've noted elsewhere the ability to hold info in a shell
> variable: would this help or be applicable?
>

​It is possible to change your Debian installation to use sudo.  ​What's
the problem with 'su -c' in the scripts - too many password prompts?

 I note, Lee, you have a Pi script for Jessie - that might work, I'll give
it a whirl...

> Nope, thrown out looking for ui/binary/armhf/Packages in sources.list.
>

​I'll plan to remove the Raspian-Jessie version of the script.  That was
something I threw together for you to try based on your previous
observations about what needed to change from Wheezy to Jessie.  I didn't
have anything to test it on.  I haven't upgraded my Raspberry Pi to Jessie
yet.​

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Re: [Xastir] Kubuntu _and_ Raspberry Pi build fails

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:19 PM, vk2tv <vk...@exemail.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 18/12/15 14:23, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:11 PM, vk2tv <vk...@exemail.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Lee,
>>>
>>> On 18/12/15 10:33, Lee Bengston wrote:
>>>
>>> Finally took a look at Ubuntu 15.10
>>>>
>>>> I have both imagemagick and graphicsmagick installed including their
>>>> development packages - and yet...
>>>>
>>>> checking for GraphicsMagick-config... /usr/bin/GraphicsMagick-config
>>>> checking GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h usability... yes
>>>> checking GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h presence... yes
>>>> checking for GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h... yes
>>>> ​​
>>>> checking for WriteImage in -lGraphicsMagick
>>>> ​​
>>>> ... no
>>>> configure: WARNING: *** Cannot find GraphicsMagick library files:
>>>> Building
>>>> w/o GraphicsMagick support. ***
>>>> checking for Magick-config... no
>>>>
>>>> I think that last line is the check for ImageMagick.  So it appears the
>>>> dev
>>>> packages for both magick flavors are not giving Xastir what it wants.
>>>>
>>>> Lee - K5DAT
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I recently compiled xastir on Debian 8.0, Jessie, and had the same
>>> problem. I added some missing dependencies as listed on the
>>> ​​
>>> Debian package page for xastir and the error went away, with all options
>>> listed as 'yes'.
>>>
>>> FWIW, here's the ldd listing from my machine. I compiled gdal, proj and
>>> libgeotiff from sources from their respective web sites, but I don't know
>>> how necessary that is anymore.
>>>
>>
​< didn't repeat the long text here >​


>
>>> Ray vk2tv
>>>
>>> ​Thanks Ray.  Are either of the pages below the
>>>
>> ​'
>> Debian package page'?
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/hamradio/xastir
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/xastir
>>
>>
>> Lee - K5DAT​
>>
>> Lee,
>
> The former is the packages page I used.



​Sorry for the slow follow up due to vacation.  I looked at the list of
Debian packages a while back, and all were already installed with the
exception of one that did not exist in Ubuntu 15.10​
​
​.  There was a similar one installed that appeared to be equivalent.  The
names escape me now.  When attempting to build Xastir in Ubuntu 15.10 the
configure script points to not finding key files that would normally be
provided by the dev packages for imagemagick or GraphicsMagick.  With
respect to GraphicsMagick, I'm not sure exactly what this message means...


​"
​
checking for WriteImage in -lGraphicsMagick"
​
... no ​

​If this issue is also present in 16.04 this April I'm sure it will get
more attention.​  15.10 is basically a lame duck release.

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Re: [Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

LOL - I already said I would do that.  I'm not exactly sure how long it
will take.  In the meantime, anyone interested in these maps can download
them via the link below.  Might as well find and download the maps you
intend to convert for use with Xastir.

http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/index.html

Select the "Download Maps/Map Store" link.

Lee - K5DAT


On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:54 PM, David Ranch <xas...@trinnet.net> wrote:

> That looks REALLY nice Lee!  For a Christmas present.. could you write up
> a doc of the steps to get that fully working?  Though the online OSM work,
> they are pretty dark and blurry for my tastes.  These would be a major
> upgrade!
>
> --David
> KI6ZHD
>
>
>
> On 12/13/2015 08:38 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> OK, got the conversions working.  Some screen shots are available via the
>> links below:
>>
>> Screen shot 1 - the geotiff file for Leesburg, VA as displayed in the
>> ristretto image viewer in Xubuntu 15.04.
>> www.175moonlight.com/xastir/pics/GeoTIFF-ristretto-screenshot.png
>>
>> Screen shot 2 - the same geotiff file displayed in Xastir.  Still a decent
>> offline map, but it doesn't display the text as clearly.
>> www.175moonlight.com/xastir/pics/GeoTIFF-xastir-screenshot.png
>>
>> I'll plan to provide detailed instructions for the following:
>>
>> - where to download the geoPDF maps
>> - what Xastir needs in order to support geoTiff maps
>> - how to install what is required to convert the USGS geoPDF files to
>> geoTiff files
>> - how to convert the files with the applicable perl script
>> - where to put the maps so Xastir can use them
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Lee - K5DAT
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ​​
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by
>>>>> default,
>>>>> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute, vs.
>>>>> more
>>>>> than 40 minutes).  And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file.
>>>>> The result looks very, very nice.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ​
>>>> Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of
>>>> character
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to do
>>>> that last time.​
>>>>
>>>> ​ Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took
>>>> to
>>>> convert and use those maps but never got to it.  At that time they came
>>>> out
>>>> a little dark but were still very usable.  It sounds like the newer
>>>> geoPDF's may convert into nicer looking maps.  I'm off to try the FTP
>>>> site
>>>> from your other message so I can take a look.
>>>>
>>>> ​I took a look, and the map does look great.  The goal now is to get
>>> conversion working for me and plug them into Xastir.  I'll post a link
>>> to a
>>> screen shot of Xastir using them when
>>>
>>> ​I have it up and running.​
>>>
>>> ​
>>>
>>> ​BR,
>>> Lee - K5DAT​
>>>
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Re: [Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

First go here: http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/index.html

Then select "Download Maps (map store)"

For now leave the map selection at '7.5 and 15 minute', and leave the
bullet selection to "Navigate".  Zoom in and drag the US map to your
desired location.  When you zoom in far enough, you will see a rectangular
grid; each rectangle represents a separate map.  At that point you should
be able to see which maps you want.  Change the bullet selection to "Mark
Points".  Click anywhere inside a rectangle to create a red marker for that
map.  Then click the red marker itself, which will pull up a list of maps
to download.  Generally you will want to download the first map (top of the
list).

So far I have only downloaded 7.5 minute maps, but I may try some of the
other larger maps and have Xastir use those at higher zoom levels.

Lee - K5DAT


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Kurt <ksav...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Any tips on map selection would be appreciated too say like downloading
> one's state of residence for example.  Clicked on the selection and there
> are a lot of maps/types there.
> It's like anything else, there's a learning curve.   Kurt KC9LDH :-)
>


>   From: Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
>  To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir@lists.xastir.org>
>  Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 9:29 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Xastir] GeoPDF try
>
> LOL - I already said I would do that.  I'm not exactly sure how long it
> will take.  In the meantime, anyone interested in these maps can download
> them via the link below.  Might as well find and download the maps you
> intend to convert for use with Xastir.
>
> http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/index.html
>
> Select the "Download Maps/Map Store" link.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:54 PM, David Ranch <xas...@trinnet.net> wrote:
>
> > That looks REALLY nice Lee!  For a Christmas present.. could you write up
> > a doc of the steps to get that fully working?  Though the online OSM
> work,
> > they are pretty dark and blurry for my tastes.  These would be a major
> > upgrade!
> >
> > --David
> > KI6ZHD
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/13/2015 08:38 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:
> >
> >> OK, got the conversions working.  Some screen shots are available via
> the
> >> links below:
> >>
> >> Screen shot 1 - the geotiff file for Leesburg, VA as displayed in the
> >> ristretto image viewer in Xubuntu 15.04.
> >> www.175moonlight.com/xastir/pics/GeoTIFF-ristretto-screenshot.png
> >>
> >> Screen shot 2 - the same geotiff file displayed in Xastir.  Still a
> decent
> >> offline map, but it doesn't display the text as clearly.
> >> www.175moonlight.com/xastir/pics/GeoTIFF-xastir-screenshot.png
> >>
> >> I'll plan to provide detailed instructions for the following:
> >>
> >> - where to download the geoPDF maps
> >> - what Xastir needs in order to support geoTiff maps
> >> - how to install what is required to convert the USGS geoPDF files to
> >> geoTiff files
> >> - how to convert the files with the applicable perl script
> >> - where to put the maps so Xastir can use them
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Lee - K5DAT
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> ​​
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by
> >>>>> default,
> >>>>> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute,
> vs.
> >>>>> more
> >>>>> than 40 minutes).  And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file.
> >>>>> The result looks very, very nice.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ​
> >>>> Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of
> >>>> character
> >>>> :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to
> do
> >>>> that last time.​
> >>>>
> >>>> ​ Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took
> >>>> to
> >>>>

[Xastir] Using GeoPDF maps

[Lee Bengston]

For those who want to try converting GeoPDF maps to GeoTif format f/u/w
Xastir using a high level guide, here goes:

1) Install the development packages for Python and Poppler.
In Debian/Ubuntu that's python-dev for Python.  Poppler has
libpoppler-dev and libpoppler-private-dev.  You may only need
the second one, but at this time all I know is installing both
worked for me.  Package names above for Poppler apply to
Ubuntu 15.04 - they may or may not very with Ubuntu version.

2) Dowload GDAL 2.0.1 and compile it.
 http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.1/gdal-2.0.1.tar.gz.
 Commands are as follows:
   ./configure --with-poppler --with-python
   make
   sudo make install
   sudo ldconfig

3) Modify the geopdf2gtiff.pl script that comes with Xastir
Comment out (or delete) line #214 that reads as follows:

$theGdalWarp="gdalwarp -cutline $inputPDF.vrt -crop_to_cutline -t_srs
EPSG:4326  $inputPDF $outputTif";

Then add a new line in it's place that reads as follows:

$theGdalWarp="gdalwarp -cutline $inputPDF.vrt -crop_to_cutline -t_srs
EPSG:4326  -oo 'LAYERS_OFF=Images,Images.Orthoimage' -oo 'DPI=250.0'
$inputPDF $outputTif";

4) Run the script on each geoPDF map file that you have downloaded.
 I used this syntax (my Ubuntu didn't like the shebang for some reason.)
 perl geopdf2gtiff.pl -f MAPFILENAMEgeo.pdf.

The resulting MAPFILENAMEgeo.tif file is in a format Xastir supports and
can be used pretty much like any supported offline map.

Note: if you don't modify the script as stated above, conversion will take
much longer, and you will end up with a larger map that doesn't look as
good.

Have fun,
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Re: [Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo  wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 09:32:17PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
> > You can experiment with compression to see if it works for you.  Look at
> > the bottom of geopdf2gtiff.pl and you'll see two commented out
> > lines:
>
> I just experimented with this and found very little benefit from
> compression.
> No matter what compression algorithm I chose, I still got a file bigger
> than
> 110MB.  Not worth bothering.  I didn't try any of the compressed versions
> in
> Xastir.
>
> If you would like to try generating the GeoTIFF without imagery, find the
> line towards the end of the script where the code sets up the gdalwarp
> command and add
>   -oo 'LAYERS_OFF=Images,Images.Orthoimage' -oo 'DPI=250.0'
> to the command line options.
>
> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by
> default,
> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute, vs. more
> than 40 minutes).  And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file.
> The result looks very, very nice.
>
>
​
Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of character
:-)

I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to do
that last time.​

​ Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took to
convert and use those maps but never got to it.  At that time they came out
a little dark but were still very usable.  It sounds like the newer
geoPDF's may convert into nicer looking maps.  I'm off to try the FTP site
from your other message so I can take a look.

Thanks again.
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Re: [Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> ​​


>
>> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by
>> default,
>> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute, vs.
>> more
>> than 40 minutes).  And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file.
>> The result looks very, very nice.
>>
>>
> ​
> Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of character
> :-)
>
> I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to do
> that last time.​
>
> ​ Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took to
> convert and use those maps but never got to it.  At that time they came out
> a little dark but were still very usable.  It sounds like the newer
> geoPDF's may convert into nicer looking maps.  I'm off to try the FTP site
> from your other message so I can take a look.
>

​I took a look, and the map does look great.  The goal now is to get
conversion working for me and plug them into Xastir.  I'll post a link to a
screen shot of Xastir using them when

​I have it up and running.​

​

​BR,
Lee - K5DAT​
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Re: [Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

OK, got the conversions working.  Some screen shots are available via the
links below:

Screen shot 1 - the geotiff file for Leesburg, VA as displayed in the
ristretto image viewer in Xubuntu 15.04.
www.175moonlight.com/xastir/pics/GeoTIFF-ristretto-screenshot.png

Screen shot 2 - the same geotiff file displayed in Xastir.  Still a decent
offline map, but it doesn't display the text as clearly.
www.175moonlight.com/xastir/pics/GeoTIFF-xastir-screenshot.png

I'll plan to provide detailed instructions for the following:

- where to download the geoPDF maps
- what Xastir needs in order to support geoTiff maps
- how to install what is required to convert the USGS geoPDF files to
geoTiff files
- how to convert the files with the applicable perl script
- where to put the maps so Xastir can use them


Best,
Lee - K5DAT


On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ​​
>
>
>>
>>> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by
>>> default,
>>> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute, vs.
>>> more
>>> than 40 minutes).  And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file.
>>> The result looks very, very nice.
>>>
>>>
>> ​
>> Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of character
>> :-)
>>
>> I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to do
>> that last time.​
>>
>> ​ Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took to
>> convert and use those maps but never got to it.  At that time they came out
>> a little dark but were still very usable.  It sounds like the newer
>> geoPDF's may convert into nicer looking maps.  I'm off to try the FTP site
>> from your other message so I can take a look.
>>
>
> ​I took a look, and the map does look great.  The goal now is to get
> conversion working for me and plug them into Xastir.  I'll post a link to a
> screen shot of Xastir using them when
>
> ​I have it up and running.​
>
> ​
>
> ​BR,
> Lee - K5DAT​
>
>
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Re: [Xastir] Tutorial?

[Lee Bengston]

On Dec 12, 2015 1:14 PM, "Mike M"  wrote:
>
> It's working!
> I'm not sure what was different.. I think maybe since the world map by
> default has a layer number larger than the other maps if you don't
> explicitly set it on your selected map, the maps were always buried?  I
> dunno.  But it's working now with OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo...albeit tile
> loading is slow. I also may have assumed that since the tiles@home server
> is no longer up, that all the online OSM maps would not work.  I know at
> one point I had many of them selected and never got anything to come up.

Given you are on version 2.0 of Xastir, which I think is about 3 years old,
you have many obsolete online map selections in the map chooser.  I suspect
you had not tried the mapnik option previously, which is obviously still
valid.
>
> So the next step.. how can I figure out why my map file doesn't show up in
> the map chooser?
>
My guess is simply that your map file is not in a format supported by
Xastir.

There's been a fair amount of discussion lately on the list about offline
maps.  As others have said, the maps how-to needs to be updated.  That's
easier said than done these days.  I lost my ability to make updates after
the hosting changed, but I doubt I would have had time to mess with the
maps section, anyway.

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Re: [Xastir] Magick Error - Ubuntu 15.04

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Tom Russo  wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:19:25PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
>
> ​    snip ​

>
> > So problem solved, but given the OS had been upgraded, I wonder if just
> > re-compiling the March version of Xastir would have been enough.  I'm not
> > aware of any changes to Xastir between March and now that were designed
> to
> > address compatibility with a newer version of GraphicsMagick.
>
> There have not been any code changes to Xastir in a while.  A very long
> while, actually.
>
> Odds are that you would have found everything to be working after a
> recompile/
> relink after the upgrade.   Rebuilding Xastir is always the first thing I
> do after completing an OS upgrade, because I expect there to be shared
> library
> issues in the binary.  I'm surprised it even ran at all.


​Yeah, I'm not surprised - too many changes in an OS upgrade to expect
things to just work.

Thanks,
Lee - K5DAT
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[Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

All the talk lately about offline maps prompted me to try converting the
latest USGS Topo maps from geoPDF format to geoTiff using the
geopdf2gtiff.pl script.  I did this back in 2011 or 2012 after Tom KM5VY
created the script.  At that time it was a requirement (at least in the
Ubuntu/Debian world) to install gdal from source because the version in the
repository was too old.

The binary version of gdal in today's Ubuntu repo's is newer than the one I
had to compile 3-4 years ago, so I thought I would give it a go using
that.  I downloaded a geoPDF map for my area, and ran the script.

$ ./geopdf2gtiff.pl -f VA_Leesburg_20130613_TM_geo.pdf
User asked us to fudge the neatline, finding nearest 7.5 minute quad
boundaries
Warning 1: libXML: 0: Element 'GeometryField': Character content other than
whitespace is not allowed because the content type is 'element-only'.
Creating output file that is 12245P x 12245L.
Processing input file VA_Leesburg_20130613_TM_geo.pdf.
Using band 4 of source image as alpha.
Using band 4 of destination image as alpha.
ERROR 1: Bad color space dict'
ERROR 1: Pos = 9046254, Bad image parameters
ERROR 1: Bad color space dict'
ERROR 1: Pos = 9046254, Bad image parameters
ERROR 1: Bad color space dict'
ERROR 1: Pos = 9046254, Bad image parameters
ERROR 1: Bad color space dict'
ERROR 1: Pos = 9046254, Bad image parameters
ERROR 1: Bad color space dict'
ERROR 1: Pos = 9046254, Bad image parameters
ERROR 1: Bad color space dict'

I aborted the script at this point.  Oh well, it appears the latest
geoPDF's have issues.  I could try building gdal from source including
compiling in the required poppler support, but if the issue was gdal or
poppler related I think the errors would be different.  Also I was trying
to find an offline map solution that did not require building a package
like gdal from source.

BR,
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[Xastir] Magick Error - Ubuntu 15.04

[Lee Bengston]

I recently upgraded an Ubuntu 14.10 installation to 15.04.  Prior to the
upgrade, Xastir worked fine.  It was a March 2015 build from CVS.  After
the upgrade, online maps did not work.  In the terminal I saw this:

Magick: No decode delegate for this image format ().
Could not allocate canvas to hold tiles.

Checking dependent package names, I was not able to find any that were
different from the previous Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 including those for
GraphicsMagick, but it's possible that some were upgraded to newer
versions.  Then without changing any installed software I grabbed the
latest Xastir source from CVS, re-compiled, and the maps were back with no
errors in the terminal window.

So problem solved, but given the OS had been upgraded, I wonder if just
re-compiling the March version of Xastir would have been enough.  I'm not
aware of any changes to Xastir between March and now that were designed to
address compatibility with a newer version of GraphicsMagick.

Best,
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Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Skyler F  wrote:

> Finding where I will need maps, and then viewing the maps that I need to
> cover for the event.
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Floyd Rodgers  wrote:
>
> > So can you explain what you do by hand?
> >
>
>
​https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Geo-OSM-Tiles/downloadosmtiles.pl

Looks like there's an existing script ​that can download OSM tiles.  I have
not tried it, and if it works I would use with care given the tile usage
policy.

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