[Xastir] Line of sight

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Tue May 17 19:55:19 EDT 2005


On Tue, 17 May 2005, Rob Campbell wrote:

> I'll take a look at the code when I have some time.  It's almost 5pm so
> I'll be heading home in a few minutes.  Do you think it would be better
> to store the old positions in another linked list, or an external
> database?  I would think that an external database would be needed,
> since the number of positions can grow to be very large.

Yea, I agree.  I wrote a Perl script quite a while back that parses
positions and stores just the lat/long's in a separate database.  I
used that to determine a coverage map.  This would be similar,
except you're trying to determine more from the path in order to
keep each coverage area separate.

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