[Xastir] possible feature request: new "select station types to display" dialog?

[Craig Anderson]

Hi Jason,
	You are exactly right.  All the functionality to do
what you want is there, it just isn't easily accessible.
Xastir needs a better "layering" mechanism.  The
ability to turn on or off map (and object) layers more
easily than the "Map Chooser" and the
"View"->"Mobile Stations" etc.

Now, do I have the capacity to do this?     no.
Sorry.  Very sorry.

Craig

On Jan 28, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> A recent post to the APRSSIG (about usefulness to EOC type users)  
> got me
> thinking, and I wonder if we would be better served by a different  
> way to
> select the stations displayed on the map?  I would imagine this  
> would be
> most useful for special events operations.
>
> The basic idea would be to allow the user to select/deselect  
> _any_type of
> station for viewing based on station type, so for example, if one  
> wanted to
> see only WX, fire trucks, and ambulances, the view could be reduced  
> to that.
>
> I guess the simplest interface would be a grid of icons, pretty much  
> exactly
> like the one that allows you to choose your station icon, that would  
> allow
> the user to select which type of stations would be displayed.  Maybe
> refinements could be the ability to display full data (as currently  
> selected
> for callsign/speed/heading/age/wx data/etc), icon only, or no  
> display, would
> be useful (haven't thought so much about that one).
>
> I'm not too sure I've formulated the idea to well, so I thought I'd  
> throw it
> out here before I formulated a feature request.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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