[Xastir] Map files

John L Place jplace at sc.rr.com
Thu May 1 23:02:14 EDT 2003



Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

>On Thu, 1 May 2003, John L Place wrote:
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>>Can these files be used for Xastir??
>>If so, what directory structure?
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>>http://aprsmaps.rutgers.edu/cd/tigerapr/TigerAPRS/
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>No.  Those are probably TigerLine raw files from census.gov.
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>We have the same kind of data (from the same source!) available to us
>in a much better format.  See the Tiger information in the README.1ST
>file for where to download them.  I just updated the README.1ST a few
>minutes ago as to what layers are what, so it should be easier to
>decide what to download now.  I'm downloading another county's worth
>of data from the ESRI site right now.
>

Just did a cvs update and the file date for readme.1st is still March 
27. readme.win32 is may 1st. Didn't see anything in it.

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>Note:  This is a separate format from the Tigermap server images, but
>those are also derived from the census.gov data.
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