yea, I know...

I'll start prototyping it in a couple weeks...thankfully, we are very busy! Economy turning around? Not...probably just a dip downhill...or maybe people are just tired of not doing business and making like everything is ok LOL...

Very cool! Thanks...running it on Mac

Now...can you please add a radius field to the RFinder login panel and constrain the Import From File window to that radius?

Jesse is testing the registration piece...we will need to add a link in the login panel...

Did you see the writeup in CQ Magazine?

Thanks for your support!

_______________________________________________________________ RFinder - The Worldwide Repeater Directory Bob Greenberg W2CYK 516.807.0697 Mobile 631.594.2555 Desk/Mobile Simulring 631.389.2508 Fax "When all else fails...Amateur Radio"

From: Dan Smith dsmith@danplanet.com To: chirp_devel@intrepid.danplanet.com Date: 07/22/2011 09:49 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Distance from column in Import From File Dialogue Sent by: chirp_devel-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com

Can this be added? Need this to constrain the list to be more useful when querying RFinder...

I assume you meant the "Import from RFinder" dialog.

I added a generic comment field to the memory object, and populate it with the NOTES field and the calculated distance and direction from the provided coordinates. Those will be in tomorrow's build.

Speaking of optimization... Any news on upgrading that 386 to a 486? Adding features to and testing the RFinder driver is really painful at the moment :)

Dan....

I understand your take on that, but the back end is not designed that way. Has to be done on the client.

This was decided early on, deliberately. As part of narrowing down the results. So a narrowing could be done without a new fetch. We figured that folks that had sparser numbers of repeaters would need to increase their radius to get valid results. We figured let them do it without re-fetching. I know your next comment is, OK...then move the DB....however, we aren't changing the design even if/when we get a "round tuit." It makes intuitive sense even in the densest areas, like around NY so you can narrow down to the local machines. The spec is for this to occur on the client.

I asked you to put it on the RFinder Login panel as it is specific to RFinder (or anything else that is geolo enabled) and you run through the data set after that screen, so the distances would be calculated and culled out on the fly.

Alternatively, I believe it really belongs on the Import from File screen, so interactively you can cull the list by distance without another fetch (just like on the Android App). This would require a list refresh, of course. And provide the capability consistently for any geolo enabled data source. What's your take on that?

We finally got our Mac today so we are starting on iOS next week...it will be of consistent design.

Thanks for your support!

Bob ___________________________________________________________ RFinder - The Worldwide Repeater Directory Bob Greenberg W2CYK 516.807.0697 Mobile 631.594.2555 Desk/Mobile Simulring 631.389.2508 Fax "When all else fails...Amateur Radio"

Now...can you please add a radius field to the RFinder login panel and constrain the Import From File window to that radius?

I think that makes far more sense to pass that to the server to limit queries before they make the trip, like I do for repeaterbook. When you get that on the server side, let me know and I'll gladly start passing it the user-selected radius.