Perhaps you are right, but I do like the idea of having everything in
one display. Honestly, I use three apps now when working events. I
have an APRS app, Gaia GPS (for displaying/following the route of the
event) and some navigation map (such as Google Maps or Waze) for the
times that I need to
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:48 PM Curt Mills wrote:
> Or my designed-for-the-purpose Garmin Nuvi-350.
>
This would be my preferred approach. I get bummed/annoyed that accepting
waypoint data is so rare on these modern GPS units.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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That would likely change xastir from a great APRS app into a really bad
APRS app with really bad turn-by-turn capabilities.
Tom Henderson
On 6/14/19 11:36 AM, William McKeehan wrote:
Is there any way to get directions in Xastir? Is such a feature on the
list of desired things?
That object format can only hold so many segments, so probably not a
great fit for this.
One could create a Shapefile map overlay out of it though. Not sure
how turn-by-turn could work with that, but some limited functionality
might be had. Heaven help you if you got off-course though, it
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:07 PM William McKeehan wrote:
> Would it be possible to integrate something like the Open Source
> Routing Machine
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Source_Routing_Machine) into
> Xastir?
>
Maybe you could use an external program to generate an APRS
Even for our OSM maps we are only using tiles generated from a server
elsewhere. We don't have the underlying data that would make routing
possible. To do that you'd have to have a database engine running on
the machine and a complete set of OSM data for the area of interest.
That's beyond our
Nope. The only address-like thing we have is a quite-old feature for
finding a location by street address.
To get into routing and turn-by-turn directions we'd need the proper
up-to-date maps with speed limits and lanes, put that into a directed
graph, then walk the graph to look for the 2 or 3
Xastir isn't actually "aware" of map features beyond their bounds, and in
some cases their data type (e.g. dbfawk parsing). In most cases the map is
a bitmap, so its only attribute is the bounding box of the map tile.
So plotting a course along a road is pretty much so far from what xastir
does
Is there any way to get directions in Xastir? Is such a feature on the
list of desired things?
--
William
KI4HDU
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