[Xastir] Draw on maps ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, William McKeehan wrote:

> I thought there was a way to draw on an Xastir display, but I don't see
> anything in the menu that looks like the right thing.
>
> Is this built-into Xastir now?

Forgot to mention, there's another way to draw if you have Shapelib
installed:

Create an object or item.  "Compressed mode object/item transmit"
works best for this if you're at close-in zoom levels as it gives
you better placement resolution than "normal" APRS.

Create an object or item at your start location.  Turn on "Move"
mode.  Drag the object around to all the places that you want line
segments to go.  Now go to Station Info and click "Store Track".
This will create a Shapefile-format map in ~/.xastir/tracklogs.
Move the three files with long names to your maps directory,
reindex, and you have a new map.

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