Doc on overlays:
http://www.aprs.net/vm/DOS/OVERLAYS.HTM Useful text there: "THese files must be placed in your APRSPOS directory. You can make these POS files for your own area limited only by your imagination. A file of all VOICE repeaters is important for the traveler. Use the freq as the callsign so that it shows on the map. Or you can make a .POS file of all your club members so that you can visualize your net. FORMAT: The format is simple. Each line consists of a NAME up to 9 characters (variable length) followed by the normal FIXED station APRS position format beginnning with an exclaimation point. You MUST also add a single line descriptive comment at the beginning that will be displayed to the user when he executes the OVERLAY command. If you omit this first line, then the first line of data will be used as the comment line and it will not be plotted... Have fun! BUILDING FILES: THis is easy. Just use APRS. Use the INPUT-ADD command to add as many objects to the map as you want. When you are finished, do a FILE-SAVE. Then load the file into a text editor and delete all of the date/times between the end of the object name and the beginning of the latitude. Replace all this with just the exclaimation point (!). Then save the file as a .POS file in your .POS directory." It would be VERY easy to convert these to either 1) log files that we can suck into Xastir, 2) something that can replace the object.log file, or 3) GNIS-format map files. Of course we could always add another map module for POS files which would be a better long-term solution. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
