[Xastir] Making better looking maps

[Gerry Creager]

What we're looking at is dynamically creating the KMLs that look to the 
APRS-IS, connect for receive-only and snag the data directly, I think. 
There may also be a path to have Xastir spawn a client process to fire 
off GoogleEarth and act as the server for the KML seeks.  I've not 
thought through this, so someone else should take the lead and go for 
it.  I'll  be glad to take issues/concerns/questions back to the Google 
developers as I see the team every 2-3 months at Open Geospatial 
Consortium meetings.

gerry

Andrew Rich wrote:
> We could hit up the programmer of agwtracker - he has maps
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> Subject: RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
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> So what do we need to do ?
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> Learn about google map API's ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
> Behalf Of Stephen - K1LNX
> Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 10:31 AM
> To: Curt Mills, WE7U
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> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
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> That would be *AWESOME*
> 
> Perhaps my overloaded brain and willingness to learn may start towards
> this...... umm yea right.... lol
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> tnx and 73's
> Stephen
> K1LNX
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> On 8/24/07, Curt, WE7U < archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
>>
>>> One question to the dev's. Is it possible to integrate google maps into
>>> Xastir?
>> It's been talked about.  Gerry Creager did some asking of the Google
>> guys and they said something to the effect of:  "Yes, please use
>> it!".
>>
>> Just need a developer with a bit of free time and the desire to look
>> into it.
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