[Xastir-dev] Problems with CVS Xastir

[Dan Brown]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Jack Twilley wrote:
> > Two questions - What is the timeout for online tigermaps set to?  And, What
> > zoom level are you trying to retrieve.  I'd recommend setting the timeout
> > to something longer than the default - I personally use the 300 second max. 
> > And, I'd also recommend trying zooms 2048 and under (right click, Zoom
> > level -> ). 
> 
> I am using the default timeouts.  So far, zoom levels 1 through 2048 
> return the same error I mentioned above.  I'll give it a try with 
> extended timeouts.

Couple other questions I prolly should have asked - is your internet
working and, can you reach http://tiger.census.gov from a normal browser? 

A couple tricks I've used: turn on debugging level 512, the watch
for the line that looks like:

fileimg is http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&off=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=38.952833&lon=-79.156792&wid=7.214233&ht=3.572622&iwd=986&iht=628

That is a (fairly ugly) URL that you can copy/paste into a browser and
it should retrieve the map you're intending to view. 

Also in the debugging output should be some timing info on how long the
current query to tiger.census.gov took, if it returns successfully.  I just
did a zoom level 2048 query with most of the details turned on and got:
"Query took 240 seconds"

The machine there at census does get slow, now and then - this may 
not be a problem at YOUR end, rather, theirs. 


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Dan Brown 
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