[Xastir] Open Street Map support

[Jim]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Jim wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Check out APRS Objects and APRS Items, as Jason mentioned a few
> messsages back.  APRS is designed to handle the sorts of things
> you're doing, posting positions of things on the map that don't have
> trackers on them.  Might save you a ton of work just to use an APRS
> program to do what you're after instead of coding something up from
> scratch.
>
Sounds like it's the simplest way.  Thanks, I'll check it out.

Jim.