[Xastir] Xastir to monitor a bicycle ride/race

[William McKeehan]

Some interesting information Greg!

What type of trackers do you use? Does the group have several or are you
dependant on the volunteers to provide their own?

We are located in temporary locations and do not have readily available access
to the internet...and the officials are on the move (it's a 2-day event; one
way one day, the reverse the next). Where do you get your internet
connectivity? Is this a full-time IGate or is it setup just for the event?

What is the custom tool that you mention - is it a simple list of items or
does it place the buses on a map?

> William:
>
> We do the Motorola Marathon each year and run up to 30 trackers.  Most of
> these are on busses to move people around but we also put units on race
> officials and the lead racer timer vehicle.  Over the years we've learned to
> put different functions on separate channels.  For software we use a variety
> of tools including XASTIR.  I use Xastir to run one of the Austin iGATES.  For
> the marathon, I set up 2 additional TNCs to iGATE the traffic to the internet.
>  This lets race officials running nothing more than a browser see where the
> lead runner is.  For bus traffic we use a combination of Xastir, UI-View, and
> a custom tool that shows each busses' last beacon, current position, etc.
> Great for seeing if a bus has gone offline.  Lastly, we use Xastir to do
> screen captures of the bus tracks.  This gives us a good post-race overview of
> how many busses went where and used what routes.
>
> Hope this helps a bit.
>
> 73,
> Greg
>
> --
> Greg Jurrens - WD0ACD
>
>


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