[Xastir] Re: Xastir web interface?

[Eric Germann]

Or you can have an application like we do here in Van Wert County.  We've
built a weather net that squawks APRS and they show up on the Xastir
display.  With the appropriate zoom level, watch box overlays, radar, etc,
we can get near real time data as storms move across the county.

It's one heck of a lot easier to put a shortcut to a web page in the
browser at the fire stations for firefighters to operate, than it is to
run a full blown Xastir implementation.

In the past I wrote code to take weather radar images and smash them into
an MPG video that could be streamed.  That was nice because you could
watch it move across the county and see how things changed.  Guess I'm
going to have to do that with our Xastir when I get a little time.

EKG

On Wed, April 2, 2008 1:43 pm, Alex Carver wrote:
> --- Keith Kaiser <keith.kaiser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> WOW!
>>
>>
>> Not everything seems to work for me but turning on
>> PNG Snapshot and
>> being able to see it as a png is working great. Now for the big question.
>> Why do I want to do this? I'm curious why
>> someone would want to put on the web a snapshot of their Xastir screen.
>> I'm not being a
>> smart-ass I really do want to understand what it gets us to do this.
>
> A variety of reasons.  You can have Xastir running
> somewhere and let people see a map with a browser instead of a full
> implementation of Xastir.  Or you can have several people looking at the
> map and only once instance of Xastir running.
>
>>
>> While I'm on the subject, is there a way to get the
>> snapshot.png file to be named with a time stamp? I guess I'll just have to
>> write a script for that. Can we tell Xastir how often to take the
>> snapshot?
>
>
> Yes, it's in the timings configuration panel at the
> bottom left.
>
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