[Xastir] Interesting APRSdos map!

[Henk de Groot]

At 18:50 4-3-2004 -0600, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
>Another random thought:  If we were Pacific-centric, we'd almost certainly 
>make our longitude consistent with the 0-360 model...
>
>There's an outside chance APRSdos did cartography right by intent. Higher 
>probability it was by chance.

When looking at the map format there is only a coordinate for the top left 
corner and a number of pixels per degree. I think Bob just starts drawing 
at the top left corner of the map and just moves in steps right and down 
and doesn't care about any right hand side or bottom value. I have not 
tried it in APRSdos how it actually looks like.

Also Xastir does display this map, it just sticks out to the right and any 
station on that part of the world will not be ploted on the map but inside 
the "normal" area. If it would wrap arround then it would be okay...

It's a pitty there are no globe-shaped displays, that would be nice for 
this one... Still if I look at a simple program like Xearth it can be done, 
but it would require smarter map drawing code.

Kind regards,

Henk.