[Xastir] Anyone done a 64-bit compile?

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:43:01AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> > Actually, this reminds me. Perhaps a generated-on-the-fly shapefile is a
> > reasonable way to display "objects" like 802.11 network you encounter on a
> > map?
> 
> We can generate Shapefile maps from a station track right now or
> from GPS routes/tracks/waypoints.  The later functionality is
> performed by GPSMan and gpsmanshp, but the former is done by code
> internal to Xastir, so you have example code to work from.
> 
> We'd like to someday be able to write Shapefiles out for the CAD
> Objects as well.  This would aid in documenting searches, as well as
> in creating maps by hand.  Perhaps our newest developer might head
> down that twisty path?

I have been working on a replacement package for the current CAD objects
functionality.  My plan is to be able to both export to and import from
shapefiles.  It's slow going, though.

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