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Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 16:52:55 EST Tomas SA2TMS
I was lamenting how aprs.fi uses Google Maps in a meeting at the ham radio club today, and how this is a problem for emergency stuff. But then it turns out there's an #APRS thing in Debian called xastir, which is an X program which does APRS stuff and offline OpenStreetMap. So if there's a forest fire or something you give everyone an APRS tracker and you can see where everyone is while out in the woods without needing working internet. Much potential