From: Curt Mills, WE7U (vff@mcmedia.hu)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 19:51:11 EEST
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Excellent! I hope that I didn't come across blaming the Linux ham coders
> for what I perceive to be a problem. Instead I'm blaming the hams that
> *won't* even give Linux a try even on a second hard drive for whatever
> reason. I'm blaming the hams that develop some cool piece of
> hardware/software that can only be used with Doze, although I think
> this situation is improving.
>
> > I also wrote a APRS app under Tcl/Tk that runs under Linux/Windows that
> > uses the online Tiger mapping service to draw the map and place APRS
> > stations on.
>
> Say this sounds neat, have I missed it? What's it called? URL?
There's another APRS app that runs on Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux,
Lindows, and Mac OSX, but so far _not_ on Windows. Well, not easily
anyway. One user has it running under Cygwin on Windows, but I
haven't tried that yet. Might be due to the severe lack of Windows
boxes at home and at the office. hi hi
There have been over 3000 downloads of it so far this year, so
somebody must be using it!
The specs are such that it blows away windows APRS apps in terms of
types of maps supported, type of interfaces and number of concurrent
interfaces supported, runtimes, and probably a few more features.
The Tigermap service is one that it can use also, as well as
Terraserver images, USGS topo maps (DRG's), Tiger data (converted to
Shapefiles) on your local disk, radar maps, win/dos aprs maps,
pocketAPRS maps, you name it. 115 map formats are currently
supported.
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