[Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

2010-06-29 Thread jecksons jecks
Hai Is Xastir already added twitter capabilities? There's Ben Sinclair code at attachment Regards Jeckson APRS to Twitter Gateway require 'socket' begin t = TCPSocket.new('rotate.aprs.net', 1314) rescue puts

Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

2010-06-29 Thread David Aitcheson
NO NO NO THIS CAN ONLY LEAD TO PIRACY AND SYSTEM CORRUPTION If this gets added to the code it well destroy ham radio. The damb TWITS can go play in the twitterverse and leave us alone. I do not Twiter/Tweet, nor do I facebook, ect. In my opinion... if you need twitter you need help from a

Re: [Xastir] New version 1.99 binary for Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-29 Thread Lee Bengston
Thanks Dave. I didn't notice that you had replied only to me and not the list. The first posting was a functionally identical package - just had the wrong date on the deb file name and in the embedded control file. Regards, Lee On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:47 AM, David Aitcheson

[Xastir] OSM mapping.

2010-06-29 Thread John Ronan
Hi, I've been adding objects here for an event on next weekend and I just wanted to check something (no I'm not complaining, its a wonderful feature). Firstly, I update from CVS about 3 hours ago. For me, OSM_cycle doesn't work for zoom levels below 27, using F4 at this point drops me down

Re: [Xastir] Ububtu 10.04 Tigermaps issues

2010-06-29 Thread Steve Rogers
Try an update, the OSM maps are new. Like the CVS area says updates are occur often! Steve Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:41:06 -0700 From: mtnl...@gmail.com To: xastir@lists.xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] Ububtu 10.04 Tigermaps issues Oh really?? I followed that and I am running 1.9.9

[Xastir] CVS 1.9.9 scripts

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI
I installed 1.9.9 from CVS and I can't find the scripts directory. I looked in /usr/local/share and ~/.xastir . I thought they were in /usr/local/share. Maybe I missed something on the install? Maybe I am looking in the wrong place. Ideas? I am just trying to install the NWS shapefiles and

Re: [Xastir] CVS 1.9.9 scripts

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:03:29AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the aa...@yahoo.com flavor, containing: I installed 1.9.9 from CVS and I can't find the scripts directory. I looked in /usr/local/share and ~/.xastir . I thought they were in /usr/local/share. Maybe I

Re: [Xastir] Ububtu 10.04 Tigermaps issues

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Rick Green wrote: At what point would it be appropriate to remove map_tiger.c and tigermap.geo from the codebase? Considering the Tigermap people said they have no intention of restoring the service in the future, we could do it at any time. If they ever do come out with

Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Peter Gamache wrote: Seriously, this is APRS--Twitter, not the other way around. It's a novelty for one particular user to be able to update his Twitter account from his APRS-enabled HT. I think it's a nifty idea, if not exactly a mainstream feature. It does NOT allow

Re: [Xastir] Hurricane plots

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Carver
Almost bingo. You have to somehow kick Xastir into refreshing the map so that everything is updated. I'm sure there's a way but I didn't figure out how last time I tried what you're doing. --- On Tue, 6/29/10, Guy Story KC5GOI kc5...@gmail.com wrote: From: Guy Story KC5GOI kc5...@gmail.com

Re: [Xastir] Hurricane plots

2010-06-29 Thread Guy Story KC5GOI
I forgot about refreshing the map. Curt, is it possible to call a screen refresh on an active session of Xastir from command line or is it a matter of waiting it out? Guy On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Alex Carver kf4...@yahoo.com wrote: Almost bingo. You have to somehow kick Xastir into

Re: [Xastir] OSM, F4 KDE/Gnome

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Bennett
The F4 key works for me on Kubuntu 8.10 (which uses KDE 3.5) Ian On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:21:27 Rick Green wrote: FWIW: F4 seems to have no effect with latest cvs head when running under KDE 3.5 (Kubuntu 7.04) or Gnome (Ubuntustudio 10.04) Others reported it working under fvwm2. Might the

Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

2010-06-29 Thread Eric K Germann
Security through obscurity has never been a solid practice. Postel's Law says: Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others. If gating APRS uni-directionally TO twitter will bring down APRS, there are bigger issues. That being said, I find APRS-Twitter to be

Re: [Xastir] Hurricane plots

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Guy Story KC5GOI wrote: I forgot about refreshing the map. Curt, is it possible to call a screen refresh on an active session of Xastir from command line or is it a matter of waiting it out? We have the concept of a screen refresh for .GEO maps with the REFRESH tag in

Re: [Xastir] Hurricane plots

2010-06-29 Thread Guy Story KC5GOI
That answers the refresh question then. The GIS data that is accessible is in shape file format. I need to figure out how to get to the data via ftp first. I tried going to ftp.nhc.noaa.gov but the directory for the gis data is not there. I have not done enough digging yet. Lunch is over and

Re: [Xastir] OSM offline

2010-06-29 Thread John Ronan
On 29 Jun 2010, at 20:20, Ian Bennett wrote: John, That feature is not available at the moment. As I understand the current state of play, once the developers have finished OSM implementation, they are going to look at using map tiles. Once this is done, OSM maps will

Re: [Xastir] OSM offline

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, John Ronan wrote: Could someone point me at the thread (there must be one) that explains the best way to take the displayed raster (OSM) maps and have them available for offline use? I've got my different map Bookmarks sorted out, but without Internet, xastir doesn't seem

[Xastir] Xastir 1.99 Binaries in Wiki

2010-06-29 Thread Lee Bengston
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Downloads#LINUX The Linux section of the Binaries/Downloads area has been updated to include links to download binary packages for Xastir 1.99 for Mepis 8.0/8.5 and Ubuntu 10.04. The Mepis binary will probably work in a standard Debian Lenny (5.0/Stable) installation,

Re: [Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote: new function key to optimize OSM zoom levels: Since bitmap images do not scale well, they will always look best when the Xastir scale is closest to the OSM scale. A function key (F4) has been defined that will adjust the Xastir scale to the

Re: [Xastir] Ububtu 10.04 Tigermaps issues

2010-06-29 Thread Dan Zubey
It's coming back next year: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tigerms_redir.html They may want beta testers in a few months. Regards, -Dan N7NMD On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:55, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Rick Green wrote: At what point would it be appropriate

Re: [Xastir] added twitter capability with Xastir

2010-06-29 Thread David Flood
I would respectfully suggest that before any attempt at linking APRS to any non-Ham system that the people proposing this link post their idea to the national APRS email list and let it be discussed there. Not only are the maintainers of the infrastructure there but also many others who have

Re: [Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

2010-06-29 Thread Jerry Dunmire
Where do I find info on how to setup a Ridge Radar map? The code that enables/disables the F4 is dead simple, so there must be something in the other maps that disables it. When I can recreate the problem I trace it with GDB and see what's going on. Also, could you try changing to another key?

Re: [Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Where do I find info on how to setup a Ridge Radar map? Geo files for US RIdge Radar maps from K1KWP http://www.townisp.com/~k1kwp/NWS_Ridge_geos.tar.gz The code that enables/disables the F4 is dead simple, so there must be something in the other

Re: [Xastir] no zoom levels under 15 with osm maps

2010-06-29 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
All good ideas- but first I have to get code working that will map coordinates to tile numbers. There are examples, and I'll use them as starting points. The tiles will be cached with names that match the server structure, so downloading additional tiles could be done a number of ways- both

Re: [Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Where do I find info on how to setup a Ridge Radar map? I doubt it's that particular type of map that's a problem. In this case it's a .geo file so it snags an internet-based map. I'm in the middle of debugging a different part of the code, so

Re: [Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

2010-06-29 Thread Jerry Dunmire
No problem, I can debug the code if I can get a setup that causes the problem. I've got the Ridge Radar maps installed. Now I just have figure out which to use... ...jerry On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: Where

Re: [Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

2010-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: No problem, I can debug the code if I can get a setup that causes the problem. I've got the Ridge Radar maps installed. Now I just have figure out which to use... For my area try radar/ridge/local/ATX_NOR.geo For yours, don't know but you should be