[Xastir] An Xastir story

Gerry Creager gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Wed Jun 6 16:28:14 EDT 2007


The Google Earth deal is a fairly straightforward KML hack where you 
supply lat/lon in the correct order and it plots 'em.  Can't recall the 
correct incantation but it's not hard.  I can look and post an example 
later, perhaps

Craig Anderson wrote:
> Hi Bernard,
>     I don't understand the failure you're seeing.  The permissions
> are correct on the server and I could download them.
> 
> As for the GoogleEarth plot of the balloon track, I don't know
> how it was made.  The Stanford launch team did that picture.
> I haven't had time to dive into the technology underlying
> GoogleEarth.  The Stanford project web site is:
> 
> http://ssdl.stanford.edu/ssdl/index.php
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote:
> 
>> On 06/06/07, Craig Anderson <acraiga at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>         The pictures from this "expedition" are now in 
>>> ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/
>>> Xastir/Images
>>> thanks to Gerry Creager.  Included is a file with the captions to
>>> each picture.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Craig,
>>
>> Thanks, *but* when I try to view them I get a "550 Failed to open file."
>>
>> From memory, ftp error 550 is access denied.
>>
>> Thanks
>> bernard.
>> EI8FDB
>>
>> ps: how did you get the waypoints plotted on GoogleEarth? Was that
>> manually done?
> 
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