[aprssig] Xastir or WinAPRS questions

[Mark Sproul]

MJ

I am the author of WinAPRS, so I can address these questions

At 3:02 AM -0800 1/5/07, M J wrote:
>Hello,
>While working on a college project, I ran across APRS and have been 
>watching the list for a while.  I was wondering about a couple of 
>particular features and wondered if someone would be nice enough to 
>help me to know if either Xastir or WinAPRS has them?
>
>Three items I'm interested in:
>
>I would like to double-click on the symbol for a weather station and 
>have a dashboard popup, displaying the weather data graphically.


	Yes WinAPRS has this capability


>Same item for moving objects (but about the ability to see a 
>dashboard of their GPS reported data).


	Yes, WinAPRS can do this



>As a followup to that from a recent thread, I understand that both 
>encoded and raw NMEA data can exist on the APRS network.  Is raw 
>NMEA decoded and treated like encoded data in these programs?


	there are at least 3 different lat/lon varioations that APRS supports

	NMEA
	MicE encoded
	APRS Posit report, this is a format defined by APRS which is simple
		lat/lon human readable


>Would anyone be kind enough to tell me if Xastir and WinAPRS have 
>the abilities that I'm looking for (as a receive-only station as I 
>am not able to transmit on RF).
>
>Thank you!
>MJ
>
>PS: Since I'm receive only, I'm wondering if maybe someone has 
>developed a web-page that I could hit to provide the same 
>information without having to load software on my computer?
>
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