[Xastir] Idea for re-org of map directories

[Brian Heaton]

Curt,

	How about a mechanism to disable any of the listed directories for
Automaps?  There are times that I want to run automaps, but I don't want
certain layers popping up.

			THX/BDH



On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 18:37, Curt Mills wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Curt Mills wrote:
> 
> > /100: Base raster maps like geotiff's, raster geo files other than radar.
> 
> This scheme appears to work for maps selected from the Map Chooser,
> but doesn't work for automaps.  Near as I can tell, automaps does a
> recursive search through the map directory but doesn't pay any
> attention to sorting the files alphanumerically.  If we can get that
> accomplished then automaps should work well, layering the different
> maps as it goes.
> 
> Here's my latest naming scheme.  Yes, these are really the names of
> the subdirectories!
> 
>     100_raster_base
>     200_vector_filled
>     300_raster_overlay
>     400_vector_lakes
>     500_vector_rivers
>     600_vector_rail_misc
>     700_vector_roads
>     800
>     900_vector_overlay
>     cdrom -> /cdrom
> /usr/local/xastir/GNIS -> maps/900_vector_overlay
> 
> The next problem is that the 100-level base maps (like geo's and
> geoTIFF's) conflict with the terraserver.geo file.  We normally
> would want to load one or the other, but not both.
> 
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