[FADCA] Re: Infrastructure Building - Network map

[Chuck Hast]

On 9/14/05, bud thompson <budt at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi, Linux Gurus.
> Over the next few weeks/months you'll be hearing me preach only three
> lessons learned from Katrina-
> 
> INFRASTRUCTURE
> INFRASTRUCTURE
> INFRASTRUCTURE
> 
> There was virtually no packet or digital ham radio infrastructure in the
> whole of the affected area, certainly not within 100 miles of the coast.
> That said, had there been much would have been decimated by the event, but
> w/o the infrastructure there in the first place there was no digital packet
> radio assistance for the aftermath!  We must build infrastructure here in
> Florida - NOW.
> 
> Here is an item to put on your to "think about" list.
> 
> Those LINUX FPAC sites where internet access is available should do an APRS
> (type) report to a central place once each N hours.  This information would
> then be posted on an internet accessible map for users to keep up to date on
> (1) how to use the sites/devices, and (2) current status of each device.
> There should be a way for LINUX FPAC sites w/o internet access to file the
> same reports via the packet network to a site that does have internet
> access.
> 
> Here is how it works -  Go to
> 
>  http://winlink.org/positions/telpacpos.aspx
> 
> That brings up a map of all the reporting Telpac nodes in the world.
> Hold your curser left button on a spot in FL or GA that does not have a
> Telpac spot and drag it to the center of your screen.
> Then click on the second or third ladder rung up on the scale to the left
> (Zoom IN)
> Drag the map as necessary to show some telpac nodes in FL.
> Move your cursor to a node - the call letters are shown, then click.
> This is how the Florida Layered Packet Network map should be within six
> months!
> 
> Can Linux handle this?

What do you want to see? It is all there all we have to do is select the data
and read it out of the proper places, if it needs to go over RF we need to keep
it light (should be anyhow) then when it gets to the app let the app parse it
out and put it on the map. We just need to settle on what format and how we
want to get it to the control center where it will get dumped into a
db, (I would
put the data in a db and then let the mapper query the db for the latest data
that way you have a history to look at.


-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."