[Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, William McKeehan wrote:

> The group that I work with on most events uses a variety of APRS clients.  We
> have UI-View, Xastir, WinAPRS, APRS+SA and AGWTracker. Developing maps (and
> getting them e-mailed before the event) is a painful task, especially when the
> maps change at the last minute. If I had a way to transmit the maps, then
> anyone interested could see them regardless of which APRS client they are
> using and without any need to send them via another route before the event.

If one were using KISS TNC's, perhaps something like SCP or FTP
could be used to distribute the files.  If it was a bunch of
Linux/Unix boxes, you could use "rdist" across and SSH pipe to
distribute them nicely.

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