[Xastir-Dev] Xastir Opentrac bug

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Henk de Groot wrote:

> The spec at www.opentrac.org currently also only contains a few types and I
> guess its not up to date (or has the work has fallen still?). There were
> some discussions about the future Xastir-2 a few months ago. Maybe the way
> to go is to use Opentrac elements as main internal format in Xastir and
> convert from APRS to Opentrac elements to support APRS. Opentrac is much
> more straight-forward to decode than APRS and when it is finished everthing
> from APRS will fit into Opentrac types but not vice-versa. That way Xastir
> will be an Opentrac client with APRS capability.

That might work.  I think we might generalize the internals of
Xastir-2 so that multiple protocols might work, and just decode the
pieces into our own tables, then combine them into the proper
protocol when we need to transmit.

I definitely like the OpenTrac way of doing things.

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