[Xastir-dev] Proposal for eliminating the .osm files;

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:

> I agree that the Map Chooser is the right place. The problem that I'm
> seeing is that the code in the Map Chooser is structured around file
> names, not file contents. That makes the code fast. However, things
> like projections, zoom levels, copyright notices, etc. should, in my
> opinion, be specified in the file. I don't think trying to come up
> with a lot of new extensions, nor having to parse file names, is a
> particularly good way to go. (Though I do admit it is easy!)

Actually we use ~/.xastir/config/map_index.sys, so could add
additional fields there.

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