[Xastir] Making better looking maps

[Stephen - K1LNX]

My first thoughts on implementation for this would be some kind of scraping
method maybe? I certainly wouldn't want to abuse Google's servers, but what
about passing static strings with the positional as a standard http request
and then somehow getting that data to display inside Xastir?

There are KML generators that exist today, I've seen a few but can't recall
what or how they work....

Again guys I'm not a developer, more of a tinkerer, so what I'm thinking of
may or may not be possible.....

Just some random thoughts......

73's
Stephen
K1LNX


On 8/25/07, Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
> > Behalf Of Andrew Rich
> > Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 11:16 AM
> > To: Stephen - K1LNX; Curt Mills, WE7U
> > Cc: Xastir User mailing list
> > Subject: RE: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
> >
> >
> > So what do we need to do ?
> >
> > Learn about google map API's ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew Rich VK4TEC
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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
> > Cc: Xastir User mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
> >
> >
> > That would be *AWESOME*
> >
> > Perhaps my overloaded brain and willingness to learn may start towards
> > this...... umm yea right.... lol
> >
> > tnx and 73's
> > Stephen
> > K1LNX
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/ <http://www.eskimo.com/%7Earcher/
> >>
> >> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org>
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> >> "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> >> The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!
> >>
> >
> >
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