[Xastir] Local Info, repeaters and object.log

[tom.white at gmail.com]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:00 AM, <xastir-request at xastir.org> wrote:

> From: Craig Anderson <acraiga at pacbell.net>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Local Info, repeaters and object.log
>
> How about converting the "splat" output from each repeater
> into Multi-line objects that can be injected into an Xastir
> server port.
>

Hmm... it's an interesting idea. Currently the splat analysis is raster
data, but I think there is some way to have it calculate vector data. Might
be easier to run the raster analysis through a line tracer. I'd love to see
this done with radar data too.

This sounds more like something ab9rf is working on, I may run this idea by
her to see what she thinks of it. She's taking the splat analysis in a
direction more like what you're talking about - calculating repeater
coverage by gridsquare using Longley-Rice (sp?) propo


> With the above info in a database, it may be easier to just have
> the user enter their location on a web page and get back an
> estimation of what repeaters will likely be reachable given
> their power/antenna characteristics.
>
>
This is effectively what Kelly is doing, by pre-calculating coverage per
gridsquare. So a simple 6-digit gridsquare query would return repeaters
reachable calculated on PHG calculations. The problem, as usual, is that our
position data is for the most part just city and state geocoded through the
google maps API.

73, Tom, K5EHX