[Xastir] APRS data visualization

Jason Godfrey godfreja at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 16:46:21 EST 2010


Googling for "Isoline Map" might be a good starting point.

- Jason

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've often wished there was a way to view APRS weather data the way
> weather is displayed on the evening news - e.g. take all that
> temperature data and generate a shaded map overlay.
>
> I smelled natural gas rather strongly on my way home the other night,
> and thought that an APRS-enabled mobile detector could be used to
> report gas concentrations, and this sort of visualization could be
> useful there as well.
>
> There may be ways to use simple RSS reports to assist with DFing a
> target (e.g. fox, ELT), but I'll admit I haven't thought this one
> through.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool to generate such a map, or what terms I
> should be googling?
>
> --
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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