[Xastir] XASTIR MAPS - How To...? HELP

[KC7ZRU - Tate]

George - the answer to your question is on your machine.

Read the README.1ST file included with the xastir sorucecode. It clearly 
states not only good sources for maps, but exactly where to put them in 
your file system.

You can read a copy of the README.1ST file online via the CVS browser on 
  the xastir pages at sourceforge.net:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xastir/xastir/README.1ST?rev=1.102&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir/

Here's part of the relevant section:

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Getting Data Files for Xastir:
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NOTE:  Set map FILES to permissions 644 ("rw-r--r--"), map
DIRECTORIES to 755 ("rwxr-xr-x") using the "chmod" command.
These permissions will allow anyone on the box to read the map
files, and access the map directories. Type these
commands exactly as shown in order to set the map directory's
permissions properly.  Do this as the root user:

cd /usr/local/xastir/maps
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

You can repeat these commands at anytime, to fix up errant map
permissions that are created by downloading/installing new
maps.


Download some maps:
If you compiled with ImageMagick and have wget installed, you can skip 
this step and use the online Tiger/Terraserver maps exclusively. 
However, having maps on your computer is often faster than transferring 
images over a modem, and is not subject to the failures of your internet 
connection.

You can have any number of maps in the /usr/local/xastir/maps directory.

You can organize the maps however you like. You can also use symbolic 
links to link to files/directories on other disks. Map files are loaded 
in the order that they appear in the chooser, unless you adjust the 
layering priorities in the properties dialog.

There are many methods for organizing many maps; the following have 
proved successful:

Create a USA directory and then one for each state under the USA 
directory, or have a separate directory for each type of map. For example:

                           /usr/local/xastir/maps/
                                                 /usa/
                                                 /usa/CO/
                                                 /usa/NJ/
                                                 /dos/CO/
                                                 /dos/NJ/
                                                 /pixmaps/CO/
                                                 /pixmaps/NJ/

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There's more, but you've a copy of it already.

Congratulations on getting xastir up and running and welcome to the 
world of Penguin APRSing!

73

George Smart (Linux PC) wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I know that this question may sound sill to most, but today, I MANAGED 
> to install XASTIR onto my Computer (running Red-Hat Linux 8.00), and i 
> have had it all going, people can see me on there maps, and i can see 
> people, so to speak...  Then, come the question of how to get all these 
> callsigns to mean something.  I searched the net  (with Google 
> (www.google.co.uk <http://www.google.co.uk>)) for anything to do with 
> APRS, XASTIR, Maps, and UK, and found a site, where i downloaded about 
> 100 maps in a file format of "[File_Name].MAP", and they are in a *.ZIP 
> file.  after extracting them, i read the README.1ST file, the README.TXT 
> file, and the FAQs.TXT, trying to find out what i had to do, but could 
> not see anything.
> 
> If anyone can answer my question it would be VERY much appreciated.
> 
> 73 de George Smart - 2E1ZZZ / M3PKT
> Essex, South-East England, United Kingdom.


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