[OZAPRS] What moving map software do you use ?

[Carlos PECO BERROCAL]

Hi,

I looked at ATAK and OpenTAK, there are some youtube videos. It does a lot
of things.

It certainly looks like the thing I'm after (once someone develops an API
so it takes APRS waypoints/objects from the TNC).

73,
Carlos VK1EA



On Monday, April 19, 2021, Mathew Meins <mm at blackhelicopters.net> wrote:

> I use ATAK for general mapping, but it's designed as a blue force tracking
> tool.
>
> Open source, developed by US Department of Defence.
>
> https://github.com/deptofdefense/AndroidTacticalAssaultKit-CIV
>
> Has lots buttons and not much by way of documentation, but it's pretty
> powerful once you figure out how to use it.
>
> It has its own "cursor on target" format for position data, which is spams
> out via IP multicast by default. A few other people have done work to
> translate that format to APRS, or at least the subset of functionality that
> APRS also supports.
>
> My plan down the track is to put a box in the car which will share that
> position data from wifi via LTE Cat-M1 (much slower but ~15dB better link
> budget than LTE broadband), and radio simultaneously.
>
> Mat
> VK1XT
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, 14:41 Carlos PECO BERROCAL, <carlos.peco at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried APRSdroid in a tablet and found that the icons are really
>> small to be seen while driving (I'm not inclined to take the eyes from the
>> road for more than a second).
>> It works really well here on the couch, though.
>>
>> What do you use while on the move?
>> Ideally, I'm after something that displays other station's locations and
>> their tracks, in a chunky, large and easy to see format, fed with waypoints
>> from the radio (for out of the grid operation).
>>
>> I have both Android and Windows10 tablets.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Carlos VK1EA
>>
>>
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