[aprssig] Waypoint truncation

[scott at opentrac.org]

Got it implemented...

http://n1vg.net/opentracker/images/gps48-truncated.gif

It still bugs me not to have the callsign, though.  I think I'll add an
option to put the actual callsign in the comment field.  Oddly enough, even
units like the GPS 48 that don't support long waypoint names still display a
16-character comment.  The eTrex units, though, seem to be a step backwards
with no comment support.  Oh well.  Looking over my test set of LA data, it
looks like dropping the '-' does manage to preserve a number of callsigns
that would have been truncated otherwise.

Scott
N1VG 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Miller [mailto:scott at n1vg.net] On Behalf Of Scott Miller
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 6:58 AM
> To: 'Robert Bruninga'; aprssig at lists.tapr.org; scott at opentrac.org
> Subject: RE: [aprssig] Waypoint truncation
> 
> > >>> scott at opentrac.org 02/05/06 3:16 PM >>>
> > >But I'm planning to drop dashes and truncate 
> > >from the right. 
> > 
> > You can't do that.  If you truncate from the right
> > then the GPS cannot distinguish WB4APR-1
> > from WB4APR-3 from WB4APR-7 from WB4APR-9.
> 
> I mean preserving the rightmost characters.  WB4APR-9 becomes 
> B4APR9.  Not
> pretty, but oh well...
> 
> I suppose you could also truncate the other way, but preserve 
> the SSID.  So
> you'd get WB4AP9.  I'm not sure that's really an improvement, though.
> 
> Scott
> N1VG
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