[chirp_users] New chirp-next build

[Chuck Hast]

I am the same way, I can get lat/longs faster than I can figure out the
county or zip of the locations
I am going to. I know where I am going, I can get that lat/long usually
faster than the county location,
and out in the west many counties are larger than some states so that is a
lot of terrain to cover.

Lat/longs are the way to go in my view.


On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 10:33 AM Dan Smith via chirp_users <
chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

> > I've been playing around with the new Chirp. I like that the import from
> > RepeaterBook includes an option for coordinates, but I wish the previous
> > import options were kept. When I'm preparing for a trip, I'm more likely
> > to know the county or zip code of my destination than I am the
> > coordinates. Yes, I can get the coordinates, but it's more cumbersome
> > (YMMV). However, if I need to make changes once I'm at my destination,
> > finding coordinates is much easier,  but then I can just use the
> > RepeaterBook app instead.
>
> Okay, I generally find it harder to figure out the county of a remote
> location, as I usually have to find a town's web page or something, which
> sometimes links to their county site. Or find a county map and guess where
> I'm going. Going to google maps, clicking on a place and grabbing the
> coordinates is easier (for me). Also, sorting by coordinates means I have a
> much better idea how far repeaters are from where I'm going to be, since I
> won't know any of the local names. I actually rarely used the chirp query
> for travel for this reason, but find the new one a lot more helpful.
>
> Searching by zip code is only supported (currently, could change) in the
> special repeaterbook chirp interface, but we don't get the richer data from
> their API that way. The new interface lets us show nearby landmarks, towns,
> *and* the coordinates of the repeater so we can sort by distance. Geocoding
> coordinates from zipcode actually costs money (the USPS charges *annually*
> for access to that information, if you can believe it).
>
> That said, please open a Feature Request for this and include the above
> justification and I'll see what I can do.
>
> --Dan
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Chuck -- KP4DJT
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