Re: [Xastir-dev] Proposal to clean up some warnings

2010-06-09 Thread Jerry Dunmire
will do. ...jerry On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Would you like me to make the change to add %s format strings and send it to you as a patch? If so, should I send the patch to you off line or send it to this

[Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Google is a problem because their usage policy does not allow caching. Several other standalone applications (viking comes to mind) have had to stop using Google maps for just that reason. I just took another run through one of their licensing pages

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Kai Gunter Brandt
On 06/09/2010 08:01 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: 9.2 Reporting: Talks about having to report info to Google if your use includes use of a sensor to automatically determine the location (such as GPS). Not sure how many people using XASTIR as a mobile station.

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, June 9, 2010 15:32, Kai Gunter Brandt wrote: On 06/09/2010 08:01 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: 10.9(c) is interesting: Types of uses that Xastir would probably come under. It looks like we fit under their exemption in most cases, except where Xastir is used in a commercial application.

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Wes Johnston, AI4PX
I hate to fall into the category of if she jumped off a bridge would you, but at the same time, sites like aprs.fi and findu are pulling google maps... and those maps have to be coordinated thru a site license right? Obviously displaying little icons on a map is an acceptable use of google maps,

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Kai Gunter Brandt
On 06/09/2010 02:11 PM, Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote: I hate to fall into the category of if she jumped off a bridge would you, but at the same time, sites like aprs.fi and findu are pulling google maps... and those maps have to be coordinated thru a site license right? Obviously displaying little

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Kai Gunter Brandt kai.bra...@cih.uib.no wrote: So if some gurus can help me to get Statkart to work in XASTIR it would be great. I'm not a guru, but I'll make some noise until they show up... Off the top of my head, I see 3 solutions: 1 - you generate a bunch

[Xastir] [aprssig] Experimental D-PRS - APRS gateway at Aprx-2 software (fwd)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:16:23 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio oh2...@sral.fi Reply-To: TAPR APRS Mailing List aprs...@tapr.org To: TAPR APRS Mailing List aprs...@tapr.org Subject: [aprssig] Experimental D-PRS - APRS gateway at Aprx-2 software Recently we

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Kai Gunter Brandt
On 06/09/2010 03:14 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Testcall: http://openwms.statkart.no/skwms1/wms.kartdata2?VERSION=1.1.1SERVICE=WMSREQUEST=GetMapSRS=EPSG:32633BBOX=56213.79,6531782.63,42.04,6823820.71LAYERS=Kartdata2_WMSSTYLES=WIDTH=762HEIGHT=608FORMAT=image/pngBGCOLOR=0xFFTRANSPARENT=FALSE

[Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map support in Xastir. Woohoo! For an interesting place to look, zoom in on a border and see what differences you can find for roads crossing said border. For the main Canadian border crossing north of me I can't see any difference in

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Google is a problem because their usage policy does not allow caching. Several other standalone applications (viking comes to mind) have had to stop using Google maps for just that reason. I just took another run

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Hayward
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:55, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map support in Xastir.  Woohoo! Thanks Jerry! I tried implementing OSM for Xastir a while ago and my capabilities only got me as far as writing a script to pull tiles

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Kai Gunter Brandt
On 06/09/2010 09:12 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Off the top of my head, I see 3 solutions: I can think of a fourth, but it might be problematic: Download the OSM Shapefiles to disk (whole world). Set up a WMS server for them. Attach Xastir to said server.

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Tom Hayward wrote: I updated from cvs and tried to build on OSX and got an error (not sure when it popped up or what it's related to--it's been months since I've updated): ld: warning: directory '/opt/local/lib' following -L not found

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
Nice! Thanks Jerry. Bob N7XY On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map support in Xastir. Woohoo! For an interesting place to look, zoom in on a border and see what differences you can find for roads crossing said border.

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Hayward
Wasn't there some flags that had to be passed to OSX in order to tell it where *.dynlib libraries were to be found?  Probably at the configure step. Solved. It looks like it was the Snow Leopard 64 bit defaults that were breaking things. I must have not updated Xastir since I installed Snow

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
I started with a fairly up-to-date version and had no issues on OS X with the OSM update via CVS. Bob, N7XY On Jun 9, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Tom Hayward wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:55, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
Note that you may experience some odd zooming as you use the new OSM mapping, due to the way it's matching the Xastir zoom levels to the available map levels. This will hopefully be fixed in the near future. I just experienced it while trying to zoom in using the mouse zoom-box feature to my

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Craig Anderson
I've compiled and installed the latest cvs code and it works great! But how do I turn on OSM maps? Thanks very much, Craig n6yxk On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map support in Xastir. Woohoo! For an interesting

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Jerry Dunmire
Hi Craig (and others), Thanks for the feedback on OSM support in xastir. I'm don't know much about OSX (I'm only a linux/unix guy from way back), so I'm happy that others could help out with the problems. As for turning on the OSM maps, look for Online/OpenStreetMaps.geo in the map chooser.

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Hayward
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:10, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Note that you may experience some odd zooming as you use the new OSM mapping, due to the way it's matching the Xastir zoom levels to the available map levels.  This will hopefully be fixed in the near future. I just

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Craig Anderson wrote: I've compiled and installed the latest cvs code and it works great! But how do I turn on OSM maps? Map-Configure-Index: Add New Maps Then look for OpenStreetMaps.geo in the Map Chooser. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Tom Hayward wrote: I just experienced it while trying to zoom in using the mouse zoom-box feature to my property out in the hills.  It ended up quite a distance away from my target. I noticed this. I also notice, viewing the Puget Sound region, that there is some sort of

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Russo
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 11:55:45AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the curt.w...@gmail.com flavor, containing: Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map support in Xastir. Woohoo! For an interesting place to look, zoom in on a border and see what

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Tom Russo wrote: Rather than try to restrict the allowed zoom levels, it might be better to pull in an image of a nearby OSM level and then rescale it to the requested Xastir zoom level. That's what the terraserver and other .geo code does. Yep, my take on it too, which

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Jerry Dunmire
Thanks for the feedback. Help is always appreciated Tom and Curt. I'll try to keep up :-) It will take me a bit to try out the great example you provided, but I'll get started. The OSM code is really just a (simple) modification of the tigermaps code. The slow speed seems to be all related to

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Hayward
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:34, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: I saw that once and then ran out of time trying to duplicate it (couldn't at that time).  The new code tweaks Xastir's zoom levels to match the map instead of the other way around, so that's likely most of the issues we're

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Russo
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 01:48:00PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the curt.w...@gmail.com flavor, containing: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Tom Russo wrote: I also note that the code appears to be changing requested zoom levels to match OSM zoom levels. This may or may not be

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread David
Hi All.have just done an upgrade on my Xastir system and when i restarted the program up came the OSM maps.looks real great for Australia.the only thing i have found is that the map of Townsville does not ha ve the street i live ing...we are in a rural residential area in the

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Jerry Dunmire
Thanks Tom for the analysis. I'll look into where else calling the adj_to_OSM_levels() needs to be called as a short term fix until I can figure out (really just learn what's already there) a better scaling method. ...jerry On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org wrote: On

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Tom Hayward wrote: I have a university datacenter offer (well, I asked and the reply was that he's not opposed), but no hardware. I don't think it's probably up to this sort of service, but I have a rack-mount server sitting at home unused, a dual P3 866MHz with a IDE raid

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Thanks Tom for the analysis. I'll look into where else calling the adj_to_OSM_levels() needs to be called as a short term fix until I can figure out (really just learn what's already there) a better scaling method. Jerry: Don't take all the negative

Re: [Xastir] Google Maps restrictions

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, John Ronan wrote: How large is the dataset? Bandwidth we have, Disk space is a different matter, but I could find out what some of those new thumpers are doing tomorrow. Found at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm A new version of planet.osm is released

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Murry
Glad to see that success is happening for a lot of people. I am running PCLinuxOS2010 and my for some reason I can't seem to get my cvs to update. Xastir was installed according to the how to for my OS, on the Wiki. Murry VE9MB ___ Xastir

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Murry
Disregard. Finally got in the right directory/folder and it worked. duh On 06/09/2010 08:09 PM, Murry wrote: Glad to see that success is happening for a lot of people. I am running PCLinuxOS2010 and my for some reason I can't seem to get my cvs to update. Xastir was installed according to

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread KA7O
You guys are AMAZING!! I know of no other type of project of this scale that can respond to a problem, an idea and implement a fix not only this rapidly, but this effectively. I thought OSM support would be just a dream to be discussed for awhile and then might happen some day. And here it

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 16

2010-06-09 Thread Guy Story KC5GOI
Message: 7 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:31:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this) Message-ID: alpine.lnx.2.00.1006091428490.10...@wapiti.we7u.net

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, n4lbl wrote: In the popular press today: Digital map of the world is the product of a large-scale volunteer effort http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-digital-maps-20100609,0,4102249.story I love the comment from the commercial company about it... -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread James Ewen
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Jerry Dunmire je...@dunmire.org wrote: The OSM code is really just a (simple) modification of the tigermaps code. The slow speed seems to be all related to pulling images from the server. It doesn't appear to me like the images in the cache get re-used if the

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Murry
If you guys are so impressed you should have seen what we here north of the border had to put up with for maps. This is nothing short of stupendous. Buy that man a beer, or 2. VE9MB On 06/09/2010 08:28 PM, James Ewen wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Curt, WE7Ucurt.w...@gmail.com

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Keith Kaiser
Absolutely amazing that an idea can become reality so quick. Thanks Jerry. On Jun 9, 2010, at 8:47 PM, kim wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:55 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: Thanks to Jerry Dunmire, KA6HLD, we now have Open Street Map support in Xastir. Woohoo! Thanks Jerry ... 73 kim -

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support

2010-06-09 Thread Scott Evans
I have to say that the recent addition for adding the OSM in Xastir has to be right up there because in my part of the world the tiger map info was non existent! Well done to all involved :) -- Scott Evans sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org -- This email and any files transmitted with it are

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread David
Hi James..tnx for the thoughts.as im on my way to Auckland N.Z tomorrow morning for my Fathers funeral it will be a project for when i return early next week wont be hard to do have a hand held Garmin etrex H which i think will be a help the roads are on the local maps which are of

Re: [Xastir] Open Street Map support (read this)

2010-06-09 Thread Lee Bengston
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Murry murra...@nbnet.nb.ca wrote: Disregard. Finally got in the right directory/folder and it worked. duh On 06/09/2010 08:09 PM, Murry wrote: Glad to see that success is happening for a lot of people. I am running PCLinuxOS2010 and my for some reason I

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4

2010-06-09 Thread Lee Bengston
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jerry Dunmire je...@dunmire.org wrote: Hi, I'm new to the group and new to the internals of xastir, but with the TIGER/Online resource gone I've taken advantage of the open-source for Xastir to see what I could do. Google is a problem because their usage

[Xastir] USRadar data

2010-06-09 Thread Dale Seaburg
Thanks for the USRadar maps. We will be using that when doing Storm Spotting. I have a couple of questions: 1. How frequently is the data - radar image - updated? Every x minutes? 2. When an update occurs, is the new image current, or is it delayed by x minutes, like WunderMaps from