[Xastir] Making better looking maps

[Jason Winningham]

On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:

>
> Can I ask how you created/plotted the grey dotted rectangular box on
> the map? I am guessing its the search area of that particular
> aircraft?

That is the position ambiguity for that APRS station, which is in  
fact an aircraft.  For whatever reason this person chose to transmit  
only about 3 or 4 digits of position data which leaves a pretty large  
area of uncertainty.  This box with a dotted outline is xastir's way  
of telling you "it's somewhere inside this box".  IIRC, "station ->  
filter display -> display position ambiguity" controls the display of  
this box.

-Jason
kg4wsv