[Xastir] Lost tiger maps

[Bob Nielsen]

I think the problem was a timeout in downloading.  I set the timeout to
120 sec. (the maximum) and it seems to work well.  I timed the download
for a zoom level of 256 and it took ~118 seconds.  I also tried zoom
levels of 64 (110 sec.) and 16 (90 sec.) Possibly the server is seeing
a heavy load.  I thought the map size would scale more than this,
however.

Bob 

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:43:34PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> It must have been some sort of glitch.  I have been configured to use
> the new method for a while. The map downloaded (or at least Xastir said
> it was downloading and the delay seemed about the right length), but
> didn't display.  I tried several times and still no results.  I checked
> ImageMagick and it still recognized and displayed gif/jpg/png file
> types.
> 
> I just tried again in Xastir and the map displayed this time.  Sorry
> for the commotion, but it was somewhat strange.
> 
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:57:06AM -0700, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > > I updated from CVS yesterday and lost the ability to display Tiger
> > > maps.  Everything else appears normal.
> > >
> > > System: Debian sarge, kernel 2.2.17 (yes, I know it's old), Imagemagick
> > > 5.4.4.5, Lesstif 0.93.18.
> > 
> > If I remember correctly the code that was capable of using the .geo
> > file to do TigerMap stuff was removed, so only the new method works
> > now.
> > 
> > You might also check whether your ImageMagick has the proper support
> > in it for GIF/JPG/PNG files.  I thought TigerMap switched to PNG a
> > while back, but now that I look at a recent file it's back to GIF.
> > 
> > Try the "identify" and "display" commands to see if it has the
> > support compiled in.
> > 
> > Curt Mills, WE7U                         hacker.NO_*SPAM at tc.fluke.com
> > Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
> > "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> > "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy at n7xy.net
> Bainbridge Island, WA  
> IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S 

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Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy at n7xy.net
Bainbridge Island, WA  
IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S