[aprssig] conveying map view

[William McKeehan]

The more I think about it, the less appealing transmitting the list of map
files becomes.

This would require that the users have a standard set of maps before going
into the event - that would be the time to transfer the base bookmarks/map
files.

But being able to transmit a bookmark (center and zoom) during the event would
still be nice, but the list of maps unnecessary.

> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Wes Johnston wrote:
>
>> Yes, but I don't know of a single APRS client that will allow you
>> to either 1) specify by typing a view, 2)let you click on the
>> contents of a message and specify a view automagically.
>>
>> Is there one that does?  It would really be neat if we could
>> publish map views (ie bookmarks) just like we do objects.  New
>> people arriving on the scene of an event would have within a few
>> minutes, a list of common views.... ie downtown, the county... the
>> event... and then if someone said "It's in the upper right corner
>> of your map" we'd have a fighting chance to see what the guy is
>> talking about.
>
> I can see the usefulness in that.  It shouldn't be hard to add that
> to Xastir.  We already have a way to specify map center/zoom, so
> we'd just have to put in a special message type to push that out,
> and to decode it.
>
> How best to do that?  Group message?  Directed message to a
> particular station?  Query?
>
> Would we want a list of the map files to go across as well?  That
> could get very long/time-consuming across the air.
>
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