[Xastir-dev] APRS software engineering course update

[Ken Koster]

On 2010-05-08 Jason KG4WSV blathered on about:

> [update on the "APRS client software engineering project" I brought up
> a few months back]
...
> 
> The data viewers were interesting.  One uses a package called Marble (
> http://edu.kde.org/marble/ ).  It's a google-earth reminiscent display
> application/widget.  An interesting feature of marble is connection to
> wikipedia (or, after some programming, other online databases).  The
> support for a live dynamic data feed isn't really there, but the
> students report active development by the marble team and noticeable
> improvements over the course of the past couple of months.  This is
> one to watch.
> 

This is so cool.

I've been following the KDE Marble project ever since it started a couple of
years ago with an eye toward using it for APRS.  That they're getting around to 
supporting dynamic data is great.

It's a very nice app,  sort of a local Google Earth.

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