Re: [Xastir] Macintosh Snow Leopard + Xastir 2 + Kenwood TM-D710A = ?

2011-04-13 Thread Tom Hayward
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 21:58, Jarett DeAngelis jdeange...@alumni.nd.edu wrote: This driver did the trick of connecting to the TNC!  It caused a new device to show up in /dev and I was able to use that. Are you using the /dev/tty. device, or /dev/cu.? You want the /dev/cu. device.

Re: [Xastir] Macintosh Snow Leopard + Xastir 2 + Kenwood TM-D710A = ?

2011-04-13 Thread David Flood
-Original Message- From: Jarett DeAngelis jdeange...@alumni.nd.edu Sent: Apr 12, 2011 8:58 PM Problems I have now: GPS data is not passing through. I believe the answer to that is in your first email: -Original Message- From: Jarett DeAngelis jdeange...@alumni.nd.edu Sent: Apr

Re: [Xastir] Macintosh Snow Leopard + Xastir 2 + Kenwood TM-D710A = ?

2011-04-13 Thread Jarett DeAngelis
No, I have it on serial with GPS on aux port now. I tried that and KISS the first time around when I didn't know about the driver. On Apr 13, 2011 11:39 AM, David Flood davi...@mindspring.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Jarett DeAngelis jdeange...@alumni.nd.edu Sent: Apr 12, 2011

[Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Jason KG4WSV
Can someone suggest a method (or give me an RTFM reference) for generating .geo files for OSM map server tiles? I like the looks of tangoGPS, and am exploring the use of one map tile set for both tango and xastir (or more likely just using a tagoGPS map cache for an xastir map base, since there's

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, April 14, 2011 09:02, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Can someone suggest a method (or give me an RTFM reference) for generating .geo files for OSM map server tiles? I like the looks of tangoGPS, and am exploring the use of one map tile set for both tango and xastir (or more likely just using a

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Jason KG4WSV wrote: I was also wondering if anyone has looked at installing a local map rendering engine (e.g. mapnik) so that OSM maps can be used in an offline mode? I took a brief look on one of my systems (ubuntu, IIRC, could have been CentOS), but it seemed like an

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Jarett DeAngelis
I am having a heck of a time with OSM. I compiled support in but it doesn't show up in my map list for some reason. KC2KOA On Apr 13, 2011 8:17 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Jason KG4WSV wrote: I was also wondering if anyone has looked at installing a local

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Also, take a look at Navit. Did that recently. Basically it doesn't work. It seems a lot of people love it, but I couldn't get it to draw more than 5% or 10% of the roads on a map. Re-downloaded data several

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Jarett DeAngelis wrote: I am having a heck of a time with OSM. I compiled support in but it doesn't show up in my map list for some reason. Did you by chance install Xastir from a binary first, say a Debian or Ubuntua binary, then install Xastir from sources? If so,

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: If the OSM map _data_ is all you need, and you don't require the prettiness of the OSM rendering Prettiness isn't an issue, but I think there could be a usability difference when using the maps mobile. The xastir rendering

Re: [Xastir] Macintosh Snow Leopard + Xastir 2 + Kenwood TM-D710A = ?

2011-04-13 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Chase Turner ke4...@gmail.com wrote: I can't speak to what the proper settings are for the Kenwood, but I can tell you I never could get any serial/USB to work other than the Keyspan one. FTDI works even better than Keyspan. Prolific sucks. Really sucks. As

Re: [Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

2011-04-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Prettiness isn't an issue, but I think there could be a usability difference when using the maps mobile. The xastir rendering of shapefiles (I'm using TIGER data now) results in a map that's a bit hard to read for navigational purposes. So tweak the