[Xastir] MultiMap site WAS (no subject)

[Luc Dore VA2KSH]

Hello to Curt and all on the list,

What I like about the possibility of the multimap site is simply that 
I've noticed, since I started working with Xastir how tough it was to 
get good, street-level maps for those of us not in the United States.

This mapping site seems, to me, the most attractive solution so far as 
it covers Europe, North America, South America (maybe not entirely), 
and the Orient.

One must point out though that the site may change formatting, and url 
information at any time, leaving us without much; but for the time 
being, I really like it.

What would be cool to consider would be a new file format where Xastir 
can pass along parameters of the current window; e.g. the window center 
is xxx lat, yyy long with zzz zoom level, the window is aaa wide by bbb 
high, and have the file format respond with either a url or local file 
(the $map in my example) and have it displayed.  And where that file 
format could shell out or do some other functions.


Anyways, just a few thoughts here between meetings.

Luc D. -- VA2KSH
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On May 24, 2004, at 15:36, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> We've done it for terraserver satellite images, terraserver topo
> maps, and tigermaps so far, but we add custom code to Xastir in
> order to do such things.  Creating a URL that goes along with the
> current map view is not trivial.
>
> Perhaps one of the developers might be enticed to work on this?
>
> Another perhaps:  Maybe another .geo feature could be added which
> provides the mapping between screen view and URL?  If that were
> done, we could convert the above three to the new method, add the
> site Luc suggested above, and add more easily in the future.
>
> If it's possible.
>
> Anyone want to tackle that, or at least thing about how to do so?
>
> Looking forward to more discussion on this.
>
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