Re: [Xastir] anyone running Postgis?

2010-02-04 Thread Gerry Creager
Hmmm. I may have time between bbq'ing and napping (long story, but I'm doin' about 80 lb on the smoker) I'll snag the latest, and install it, then look at the script. Did you do a clean PostGIS install? gerry Mike L wrote: Mabe I am not running the sql script right but when I run it, its

[Xastir] do log files contain raw data?

2010-02-04 Thread Jason KG4WSV
Do the net and tnc log files contain raw data as received on the interface? obviously not, in the case of KISS TNCs, but what about the others? -- -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org

Re: [Xastir] anyone running Postgis?

2010-02-04 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:22:38AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the gerry.crea...@tamu.edu flavor, containing: Hmmm. I may have time between bbq'ing and napping (long story, but I'm doin' about 80 lb on the smoker) I'll snag the latest, and install it, then look at the

[Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Neece
I need a little help. After reading the recent Linux Journal article, I decided it was time to check out APRS. Xastir was available in the MEPIS repositories, so Synaptic was used to install it. Getting it up and running was pretty easy, but the default map it displays is crude at best.

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Rob Neece wrote: Perhaps the xastir package I installed included Imagemagick, and having the library is sufficient? These are questions I don't know the answer to. In any case, I don't want to go adding packages willy-nilly to try to fix this problem. Start Xastir from

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Rob Neece k...@cox.net wrote: After reading the recent Linux Journal article, I decided it was time to check out APRS.  Xastir was available in the MEPIS repositories, so Synaptic was used to install it.  Getting it up and running was pretty easy, but the

Re: [Xastir] do log files contain raw data?

2010-02-04 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Yes.  Be careful with the Mic-E lines too 'cuz Mic-E packets can contain unprintable ASCII characters.  You may need to view the lines in a hex viewer to be able to see what some of the characters are. thanks. I'd

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Rob Neece wrote: Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats allowed) shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library) In contrast this is what install says: Support for these additional map types

[Xastir] getting maps to draw, my experience

2010-02-04 Thread gnu not unix
Hi Folks-- I had some angst when I first tried to get maps to go with my xastir setup. Here they are installed in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/{map subdirs} and they show up ok in the map chooser window. Anyways, it turns out that on my setup, if I first clicked disable all maps in the top level

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Neece
Curt, I am very interested in getting this working, and your time is much appreciated. I have to go take care of some business now and will get back to this later this evening. If it appears most useful for me to learn how to compile xastir, my work is cut out for me. I can probably get some

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Rob Neece wrote: I am very interested in getting this working, and your time is much appreciated. I have to go take care of some business now and will get back to this later this evening. If it appears most useful for me to learn how to compile xastir, my work is cut out

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Bennett
Rob, I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to immense overhead to the program for little gain. Problems and endless questions reflect on the quality of the documentation. A gazillion configuration options is a good thing but they all must be documented;

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Neece
Ian Bennett wrote: Rob, I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to immense overhead to the program for little gain. Ian, I think you confused me with James. I don't know enough about xastir to have an opinion about it. Where I am going with this you need to

Re: [Xastir] getting maps to draw, my experience

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Neece
Steve, This trick didn't produce any different results, but it did help me to see that the maps stored on my computer are displaying, and when they overlay, it makes a mess. So a little light bulb went on. A short term solution for me would be to get a decent map for my area and store it on

[Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Locher W7GH
Hello All, I'm very pleased to have recently installed XASTIR on Cygwin here. (I installed Cygwin for the purpose of running XASTIR. I went the Cygwin route because I'm considering dabbling with other Linux apps on Cygwin.) However I've run into a vexing problem: suddenly if I

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rob Neece k...@cox.net wrote: Ian Bennett wrote: Rob,        I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to immense overhead to the program for little gain. Ian, I think you confused me with James.  I don't know enough about xastir to have

[Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ian Bennett ibenn...@tpg.com.au wrote:        I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to immense overhead to the program for little gain. That really is all dependent upon your definition of gain. If you take a program that maybe 10% of

Re: [Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, James Ewen wrote: PS, this is all written from the point of view where all I need to do to make this happen, is wave my magic wand. I know that what I am talking about isn't an easy task. The developers have spent a great deal of time building Xastir to where it is

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread gdw
Curt, As I do run Mepis I am making up a step by step list of how to do a full compile of Xastir. It assumes a fresh Mepis install and will gop on to the end. It will be fairly basic (No Gdal orGpsman or Ax25). I should have it tomorrow and will send it on to you so you can put it where

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-04 Thread David Flood
Rob, How recently did you install and which set of installation directions did you use? If you had an installation previous to the recent upgrade in Cygwin, I've found that doing that upgrade isn't worth it. Kill the Cygwin directory (or at least everything but the Home sub direcotory) and

Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, gdw wrote: As I do run Mepis I am making up a step by step list of how to do a full compile of Xastir. It assumes a fresh Mepis install and will gop on to the end. It will be fairly basic (No Gdal orGpsman or Ax25). I should have it tomorrow and will send it on to you

Re: [Xastir] My wish list

2010-02-04 Thread Jeremy McDermond
On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Xastir does have code to retry a downed server periodically and will recover, if you have that option set on the interface. You can also connect to the DNS round-robin server, something like rotate.aprs.net??? I don't recall exactly, but when

Re: [Xastir] My wish list

2010-02-04 Thread Mike L
Jeremy, I dont think xastir will allow you to attempt two connections at once, as I accidentally added a second interface the other day and xastir flagged it with an error on the interface control window. Mike -- On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Jeremy McDermond mcde...@xenotropic.comwrote:

Re: [Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread Lee Bengston
On 2/4/10, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: It's really the amount of poking and prodding to get Xastir back up and running that keeps me from having it running here. Although the new Cygwin install walk through has gotten my interest piqued again. The first Cygwin readme was

Re: [Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Bennett
snipI'm not all about the flashy maps... don't take that the wrong way either, put a nice map display in front of me, and I start drooling. snip Me neither; I detest eye candy as it only adds wow factor at the expense of system resources and headaches for the developers. I do like accurate maps

Re: [Xastir] Cygwin problem, probably routine

2010-02-04 Thread Rob Locher W7GH
Hi Curt and David, and thank you for venturing to answer my question. Unfortunately I left out a crucial fact the first time around: XASTIR worked just fine for a few days when I first installed it. So I don't think that the problem is with the installation. (And for the record, I

Re: [Xastir] anyone running Postgis?

2010-02-04 Thread Kevin Ratcliff
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Mike L w2swrs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom that built the tables. Now I need to figure out what I have wrong! I started xastar via bash, came up fine so I started the SQL interface and 10 seconds later it crashed. Here is what bash spit out: I played with

Re: [Xastir] My wish list

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Jeremy McDermond wrote: A plea from the Tier2 sysops: Please do not connect to more than one server at once. It just causes duplicates in the system, and wastes bandwidth and cpu on the servers in the network. Tier2 has a few different round-robins. It's probably better

Re: [Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, James Ewen wrote: I get annoyed when I download a free program and install it only to find out that the free part of the program was the download... if you want it to work, you have to pay $60. Well, that's not our project, but if it makes you feel any better I'll send you

Re: [Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, James Ewen wrote: If the options are useful, yes, but sometimes *nix people show their tinfoil hats and propeller beanies a little too much by adding in features like talk like a pirate and other sundry translations... yeah it's fun, but necessary? (Hi Curt! 8) By the way: