[Xastir-Dev] giving objects a locally-defined tactical callsign

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> Has any thought been given to the ability to change the name and symbol of a 
> displayed station/object *locally*?  For example, I am NCS for a bike-a-thon and 
> I know that the Mic-E tracker, N2YGK-9, is actually in Truck 3.  I would like 
> Truck 3 to be what shows up on the map display.  Basically a simple indirection 
> between callsign-ssid and tactical call.  This is much easier to do than asking 
> N2YGK-9 to change his callsign on the fly and could potentially support labels 
> that are more expressive than something callsign-sized.  I'd be happy to take 
> this on. (Yes I know the code is frozen at the moment.  I can handle 
> reintegrating patches later :-).

That'd be useful for SAR as well.

Perhaps code that up but also add in the features for sending/receiving
the tactical calls across the air to other Xastir instances and APRS+
instances?  With the same protocol that APRS+ uses so that we're
compatible?

I'm not sure what the limits are on the APRS+ tactical callsigns, but
I know they can trade them back and forth so that all of the displays
look the same.  I think that's on our feature request list.

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