APRS support for Marble

There isn't a pre-compiled one anywhere yet, but there likely will be at some point. The patch has been rolled into the main source of marble so you can just download a recent version from their SVN server and compile it.

It should be as simple as:

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/marble
cd marble
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"
make
make install
    

Then get the icons from

• aprs-icons.tar.gz

And move the "data/aprs" directory to /usr/local/share/apps/marble/data/aprs

You should be good to go after that!

Icons needed!

Unfortunately the source of the above icons is such that the copyright doesn't exist, which means the marble developers can't accept them into the base distribution. If you're a good icon creator and want to create some new APRS icons (using the oxygen color pallet) we could really use your help!

Using it

• Settings -> "Configure Marble Desktop Globe"
• Plugins
• Make sure the checkbox is checked next to "Amateur Radio Aprs Plugin"
• Optionally configure it using the preferences button

Connecting it to a TNC:

• The TNC support in it is very minimal at the moment. It only supports text-dump output from something like a TinyTrak4 in it's default "text" output format. It doesn't yet support KISS output (but it will eventually).

Colors

• Green: Received directly (IE, not even through a digipeater)
• Blue: Received from the TNC
• Purple: Received over both TNC and from the Internet Gateway
• Red: Information received from the Internet Gateway
• Yellow: If received through the configured file

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