[Xastir] What county am I in?

[Gerry Creager]

I was asked last night to work on a similar application, so there should 
be something that's web-service accessible next week.

gerry

Dan Brown wrote:
> 
> 
> Have been digging around on this for a while, but haven't found quite the
> answer I'm hoping for.  I may have even asked here before, but didn't find
> it in the archives - And, this might not be quite on topic, but is about as
> close as I could come for the right bunch of folks to ask.
> 
> Using Xastir or some other mapping program, given a functional, running gps
> and given a set of county shapefiles, is there an easy way to get a running
> display - preferably text based - of "you're in this county right now" ???
> 
> Why?  Virginia QSO party approaches.  For a rover type operation, one which
> may operate in transit, with one person driving, another operating the
> radio(s) it would be very useful to know what county and or independent
> city you're operating from at any give time.  Similar problem - though much
> easier to figure out - for VHF rovers "what grid am I in?"
> 
> It seems like a simple question; "Can you please tell me where I am?" If 
> only the counties were all square and lined up with the Lat/Lon lines.
> 
> 
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