[Xastir] digipeater coverage plots

[Dick Repasky]

I'm interested in plotting digipeater coverage, and this message can be 
viewed as a feature request or a request to know where it has been 
implemented.

Our ARES and RACES groups often support bicycle rides, runs, and relay 
races that take us out into the county far from digipeaters and often 
into hilly terrain. To fill gaps in coverage we deploy fill-in 
digipeaters. If we could plot coverage of digipeaters, we could more 
easily judge our fill-in digi's and possibly move them to better locations.

Coverage could be constructed from incoming packets.  The first digi on 
the packet path is the first digipeater to pick up the packet, and the 
packet location provides the coordinates of a place that is covered by 
the digipeater.

Coverage could be plotted using convex polygons that enclose the set of 
pick-up points for each digipeater.  Polygons for different digi's could 
be colored differently. And, points of pick-up locations could be 
plotted using the same color as the polygon, jittered slightly to make 
visible instances in which two digi's pick up the same packet. Ideally, 
  locations would be stored over some period of time, rather than 
working with only the most recent station reports.

Does anyone know where this idea has been implemented?  Is the xastir 
crew interested in implementing it?

Thanks,

Dick Repasky