[Xastir] Map clutter

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:03:14PM -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:33:44AM -0500, John Kraus wrote:
> > > Morning,
> > >
> > > I have 2 questions and I will try to keep them brief.
> > >
> > > First what is the status of using the DOS maps as a built in base map
> > > system for ham use?  Bob did agree to their ham only usa as long as there
> > > is a notification of such.  I am willing to put together a basic package of
> > > dos maps either for inclusion in the main tarball or for hosting on the
> > > Xastir site.
> >
> > Putting them in the tarball would be sort of anti-GPL, wouldn't it?
> 
> Made me thik a bit more about it.  Found this on SourceForge.  It's
> as close as I could find for the case at hand.  It looks to me like
> anything we post in CVS or as a file release needs to be
> open-source, even data.
> 
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> 
> We _could_ have a mode where Xastir could be asked to go snag some
> default maps from some non-SourceForge server and install them.  In
> fact this could be another "make" operation, or a separate script
> for the user to run.
> 

That probably would work.  TAPR has a good collection of aprsdos maps
(not very well organized), although there are probably other sources as
well.  

Bob, N7XY