[Xastir] MultiLine Footprint ISS Object

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:20:10AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:10:43AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> > 
> > > It's moving to the right every couple of minutes.  It also seems to only 
> > > appear at a few zoom levels.  Zoom out too much and it disappears.  I saw it 
> > > first though at a much higher zoom level.  It's most likely an Xastir drawing 
> > > problem.
> > 
> > I think that was because it was crossing the 180 degree boundary.  When I zoom out to world view I see it, but as I zoom in it disappears, then appears for a couple of zooms up-close.
> > 
> > Once it's past that boundary I'll bet it displays much better.
> 
> Yes, it just crossed 180W and I see a fragmented, partial multiline right
> now.  I thing we might have some issues in the processing when the multiline
> straddles that longitude.  It looks very good as long as all the segments
> are on one side or the other.

I'm also seeing a lot of these messages:

extract_multipoints: invalid scale character 124
extract_multipoints: invalid scale character 124

Not sure what to make of that.  I don't see odd scale characters in the
raw data, but I'm not looking at every one in detail.

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