Description of problem: In order to convert topo files splat requires a utility called srtm2sdf which the documentation says is included. The program is missing. It is, however, included in the source tar from the upstream. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.3 How reproducible: reproduceable Steps to Reproduce: 1. srtm2sdf 2. 3. Actual results: strm2sdf: command not found Expected results: srtm2sdf: Generates .... blah, blah, blah Additional info: usgs2sdf is also missing, but may not be needed by some users
The extra utilities are in the splat-utils package. Only the splat core and the splat binary itself is in the core splat package. I don't quite remember why this split was made this way in the first place. Are you saying splat functionality requires srtm2sdf?
In order for splat to be useful, you need sdf files. The way to get them is to use either the srtm2sdf or usgs2sdf utilities. It appears that for most of the US you can get srtm files. Apparently there are areas not covered by srtm files that are covered by usgs files, but I never made any study to see what was covered by what. The srtm files are evidently higher resolution and hence preferred. splat will still run without the sdf files, but it isn't particularly useful. The whole point of splat is to make loss calculations over terrain. Without the terrain files all it can give you is some trivial square law calculations. With the sdf files it can produce elaborate coverage maps (see http://www.qsl.net/w8kea/MARCpathloss.html for an example produced by F10/splat) as well as a number of other reports and graphs. An alternative to the utilities might be to package the sdf files. This would make the package easier to use, but it would be huge so that is probably impractical. There must be thousands of srtm files, and most people will only need the 9 centered on their location. I'm thinking this app needs/deserves a how-to on the wiki.
I see. After looking at other distributions (mainly debian) for reference and based on your explanation I've decided that the current core & -utils package split doesn't really make sense. I'll redo the package and make everything available from the core splat package.
splat-1.2.3-2.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/splat-1.2.3-2.fc10
splat-1.2.3-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/splat-1.2.3-2.fc9
splat-1.2.3-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update splat'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11810
splat-1.2.3-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update splat'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-11747
splat-1.2.3-3.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/splat-1.2.3-3.fc10
splat-1.2.3-3.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/splat-1.2.3-3.fc9
The utility mentioned in this bug is now included. As for including items in comment 3, that would be best suited in a separate RFE bug. Adding a howto page on the wiki is open to anyone, please feel free.
Such a page is under construction
splat-1.2.3-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
splat-1.2.3-3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.