<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I wonder if any code-writiers have considered a link from APRS to this system called WAZE. It places objects on maps for fellow drivers. I only learned of this today. Maybe I don't know enough about it yet:<br>
<br>see the map: <a href="https://www.waze.com/livemap">https://www.waze.com/livemap</a><br><br></div>But could we not have an engine that monitors APRS for a certain subset of objects and passes them along to WAZE. A preliminary symbols set that would trigger this action might be:<br>
<br></div>police<br></div><div>emergency<br></div>ambulance<br></div>firetruck<br></div>construction<br></div>crash<br></div>fire<br></div>hamfest<br></div>tornado<br></div>flood <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
<div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra">And the object translation to waze would include the original object text plus "[via APRS]"<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think it might be good visibility for Ham radio and let others see what APRS drivers are seeing.<br>
<br>Bob, WB4aPR<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Steve Dimse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@dimse.com" target="_blank">steve@dimse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There are several different things causing parts of this problem. As others describe, packets get mangled by this Igate that does not correctly handle non-printing characters. That's been a recurring problem since the very first IGate program. Then <a href="http://aprs.fi" target="_blank">aprs.fi</a> doesn't give the best error message in response to the IGate-mangled Mic-E packet (but I'd defend Hessu on the garbage-in-garbage-out principle. It is hard enough to correctly parse every possible legal packet in the crazy APRS spec. It is simply impossible to correctly handle every ILLEGAL possibility too!)<br>
<br>
findU shares some of the blame based on its symbol sets. If you go to <a href="http://ariss.net" target="_blank">ariss.net</a> right now and look at the station list KD0KZE shows as No Sym Yet, but if you zoom into the map at Minnesota you see the location displayed with a dot. findU has two different symbol sets created by two different people, and clearly need to be better synchronized. I've known this for a while, but it is like the bug I have with base91 weather. Every time I start to work on it I get a gigantic headache, so I have a beer. Then I stop caring about symbols and base-91 ;-)<br>
<br>
Steve K4HG<br>
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On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Paul Bramscher <<a href="mailto:pfbram@comcast.net">pfbram@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Greetings--<br>
><br>
> I regularly work the ISS digipeater and check <a href="http://www.ariss.net" target="_blank">www.ariss.net</a> and<br>
> <a href="http://aprs.fi/info/a/KD0KZE" target="_blank">http://aprs.fi/info/a/KD0KZE</a> -- and note that when a particular station<br>
> sends receipt of my transmission to the t2/sgate servers, my icon<br>
> appears as "no sym yet" instead of the usual 'House (Vertical Antenna)'.<br>
><br>
> The operator (K0GDI-6) told me he's using UISS + the SatGate module.<br>
> And I see he's apparently sending RX's that result in 'no sym yet' for<br>
> other stations also.<br>
><br>
> When I go to <a href="http://aprs.fi" target="_blank">aprs.fi</a> and pass my mouse over the 'no sym yet' graphic, it<br>
> says 'House (HF Antenna)'. That's not what I've plugged into my rig or<br>
> software (TM-V71A + RC-D710, APRSISCE/32), and I don't see this problem<br>
> with terrestrial APRS or when other stations send a report of me working<br>
> the ISS.<br>
><br>
> Is it likely that the operator's UISS software is outdated with an old<br>
> symbol set? Kind of a bummer to lose my "home" symbol on <a href="http://ariss.net" target="_blank">ariss.net</a>,<br>
> etc. I note that I can immediately restore it if I fire up 144.390 and<br>
> send some local packets in my area.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> KD0KZE / Paul Bramscher<br>
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