[Xastir] What county am I in?

[Richard Polivka]

I have the NWS Counties shapefiles linked back into my maps directory as a usable mapfile. At close enough zooms, the county name shows up but when you go out, only the outlines remain and the text disappears. 

Quick and dirty but works out quite well.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote: 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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