[Xastir] Open Street Map support

[Jim]

Andrew Errington wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:11:22 Jim wrote:
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>> Andrew Errington wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:31:16 Jim wrote:
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>> Thanks, Andrew,
>>
>> Our weather service spotters network was asking for some way to post the
>> location of reporting stations on a map.  It sounds like OSM is
>> friendlier than Google Maps.
>>     
>
> Well, Google is quite developer- and user-friendly, and will let you do stuff 
> with its products.  But, you have to get a developer ID and there are things 
> that Google will not permit you to do.
>
> The OpenLayers example I pointed you to in the OSM wiki will probably do what 
> you want.  If the reporting stations don't move (or don't move much) they can 
> all go into the text file.  When anyone calls up the map page then OpenLayers 
> will overlay the icons and deal with panning and zooming.
>
> This has nothing to do with Xastir as such, does it? :)
>   
No, I'm sorry it doesn't.  I saw the offer to help with OSM and decided 
I'd take a chance that y'll wouldn't be too hard on me.  The station 
list will be dynamic as stations report but most won't move.  I suspect 
I'll program in a javascript refresh periodically and rewrite the text 
file as stations report.  There's really no reason I couldn't merge that 
into the Xastir display to also display the APRS weather stations in the 
are. 

I'll have to think on that one.  Thanks for all the help.

Jim.
> 73,
>
> Andrew
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