On 8/25/07, Stephen - K1LNX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first thoughts on implementation for this would be some kind of scraping > method maybe? I certainly wouldn't want to abuse Google's servers, but what > about passing static strings with the positional as a standard http request > and then somehow getting that data to display inside Xastir?
Roger Coude has RadioMobile configured to grab tiles from the Google Maps site. You can tell RadioMobile to grab images from Google Maps at various zoom levels. You can watch the tiles get pulled in, and merged with the local data. The nice thing is that you can also save the tiles to your local hard drive so that if you ask for that same area and zoom level, RadioMobile will pull that tile from the hard drive, and not the internet. That means I can have Google Maps satellite images even without connectivity. Roger doesn't pull the road maps, but I would guess that they are produced the same way as the satellite images, in tiles. They too could be saved to the local hard drive for use off the net. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
