[Xastir] Placing Markers on map

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:28:48PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, AC7YY - Kim wrote:
> 
> > The only way I have thought of to update the county EOC with our city
> > EOC map is to take a screen shot every hour or so and then email that
> > screenshot to the county EOC for viewing.
> >
> > Anyone have a better idea? Sure would like to make it a real-time update
> > and over RF.
> 
> Have you seen the severe weather alert polygons?  They look like fat
> dashed lines, in red/white, yellow/green, that sort of thing.  That
> format can be transmitted across the air and received on other
> boxes.  All we'd need is a way to generate the format.

There is an unused function in util.c called makeMultiline (written by
yours truly) that will generate the string representing the shape given a list 
of x,y pairs.  All that is needed is for someone to create a user interface 
for drawing the shapes and creating an object to which the string should be 
attached.

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