[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4

[Thomas Sprinzing]

Am 08.06.2010 um 20:19 schrieb Dan Zubey:

> There probably would be licensing issues with using google maps. If  
> not,
> wouldn't that be neat.
>
> However, I think the OSM people would be thrilled to have xastir use
> their service.
>
> +1 for OSM support in Xastir.

+1 from me as well.

It's not that far away, you can download their stuff and show it  
already, but a proper dbfawk file is missing, though.
So it doesn't display really nice.

But it rocks when zooming in and out!

So count my +1 for getting a decent dbfawk that can be understood by  
mere mortals...

OSM was shunned some time back, when people claimed it wouldn't be  
correct and would show an offset to GPS.
I don#t see it - at least for my home town:

http://sautter.com/map/

73

Thomas

DL/VA3TSE

>
> -Dan n7nmd
>
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 08:43 -0400, Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:
>> What about google maps?
>>
>> Wes
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 00:18, Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Andrew Errington <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Andrew Errington <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4
>>>> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org 
>>>> >
>>>> Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 8:22 PM
>>>> On Tue, June 8, 2010 09:19, James
>>>> Cameron wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:55:15PM -0500, Steve Rogers
>>>> quoted:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for your inquiry. We have discontinued
>>>> the
>>>>>> Tiger Mapping Service as it has become outdated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, lots of people relied on a legacy service and got
>>>> bitten.  It shows
>>>>> how valuable open data sources can be.  Choose
>>>> your next source based on
>>>>> how open it is, and what license it carries.
>>>>
>>>> We should seriously look at OSM (www.osm.org) as a backend
>>>> map source for
>>>> Xastir.
>>>>
>>>> I have mentioned it a couple of times here, and it
>>>> surprises me that
>>>> no-one seems to be in the least bit interested.
>>>>
>>>> How about it?
>>>
>>>
>>> The TIGER data is open for the US which is probably why OSM  
>>> doesn't get
>>> much traction.  Only the online delivery system was discontinued.   
>>> Xastir
>>> can read the shapefiles directly, they just have to be downloaded  
>>> and stored
>>> locally rather than generated on the fly from an online map  
>>> generator.
>>>
>>>
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