[Xastir] Xastir & Google Earth

[Gerry Creager]

There appear to be some restrictions placed on folks using Google Earth 
for tracking-system like applications such as Xastir.  I've got an 
action to take this up with Google as soon as I can add it to a 
reasonable agenda.  I'm really hoping they're going to be at the Open 
Geospatial Consortium meeting in Tyson's Corner VA in early October. 
I'd rather do this as an in-person discussion than a cold-call.  If 
they're not at that meeting, I've a con-call tentatively with them in 
late October.

I apologize for the long lead-time but I've some other things we're 
doing with them institutionally that I cannot jeopardize for Ham Radio:-)

gerry

Ian Haver wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> This may of been asked before.
> Is there any future plans to include a KML server with xastir to enable
> output to the new
> Google Earth Beta4. I currently run xastir 1.8.3 (devel edition) and it
> would be nice for xastir to
> do all the hard work then let google earth do the displaying.
> I must admit that normal line maps within xastir look better than google
> earth maps when viewing the
> whole of Europe, but it would be nice to click on a callsign and zoom
> into street level.
> I do have a java application which simulates a kml server and dumps the
> info in google-earth but it would be
> nice to get xastir to connect direct to google earth, then maybe all the
> configuration of what is viewed can be
> achieved within xastir.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Ian
> G6VEY
> 
> System:  OpenSuse 10
> 
> Xastir:- 1.8.3 (devel)
> Google-Earth Beta 4 (Linux native code edition- does not use wine anymore)
> 
> 
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