[aprssig] APRS Spec Addendum 1.1

[Fritz Anderson]

A couple of suggestions for the revision...

1. areaobjects.txt gives details on the format for area objects;
symbolsX.txt has a short section at the end on area objects. The
discussion in symbolsX includes a calculation for the offset value that
areaobjects says is incorrect.

2. I'd suggest, less strongly, that areaobjects should just be merged
into symbolsX. Or, symbolsX should at least cross-reference
areaobjects, so naive developers can spend a little less time lost.

3. The 1.1 spec page says that object names should be restricted to the
character set most GPSes use for waypoints. It doesn't say what that
character set is (or what characters to avoid). It's only fair to list
them.
	
	73 de W79T
	-- F

On 30 Jul 2004, at 4:31 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:

> The APRS Working Group is currently reviewing and is
> generally in favor of a number of the common revisions,
> updates and additions that have  accumulated since the
> original release of the APRS1.0 spec.   These items and
> others have been accumulated over the  years on the
> APRS SPEC errata page:
>
> http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/aprs/errata.html
>
> Now, a non-controversial subset has been specifically
> identified for publication as a spec 1.1 Adendum.  After
> thirty days the working  group will formally vote to adopt them.