[Xastir] Airplanes, anyone an expert?

[Curt Mills]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hah!  I wish we had enough aircraft to be confused in that manner!
>
> No installed ADS-B yet. Plus I'd like to see CAP or other aircraft going
> through the search area and wouldn't know squak or tail numbers
> before-hand. The symbol is just a nicety anyway, we'd quickly learn what
> was what in an actual search, no matter the symbol.
>
> Not sure about the Alpha, but know our K9 teams are all over them. Reminds
> me of a joke:  Guy walks into a forest...
>
> I'll try to remember to talk to Guy about it next time I see him. Might be
> able to work something out. Also: I saw that the latest DMapper blurb
> talked about working with Garmin Basemap...
>

Sorry, "Garmin Basecamp"?


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Curt, member of Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue since '99.
>
> I know you guys up in Snohomish County have a larger air-ops budget
> than we do in Pierce County, but is the number of available aircraft
> really so large that it's more efficient to do speed analysis heuristics to
> determine symbol instead of a simple lookup table with callsign and symbol?
>
> BTW, Guy was asking me about exporting Garmin Alpha positions to other
> apps. This seems right up your alley. Could Xastir do this with the
> Rino polling feature?
>
> Tom KD7LXL
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