[Xastir] Tiger is sweet but

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Hudson <n2lbt at n2lbt.com> writes:

Dennis> Ok, I'm not sure what is different from my work machine and my
Dennis> laptop but I have 1.1.4 working with imagemagix on my old
Dennis> powerbook G3 and darn the Tiger maps look awesome. The fonts
Dennis> are great and they seem to follow the road much better than
Dennis> MacAPRS. And they're relatively fast. How are you doing this?
Dennis> It seems to take for ever to load/scroll on the same machine
Dennis> with MacAPRS but Xastir is flowing nicely.

Unlike MacAPRS, xastir supplies source code.  Feel free to cruise
through the code to see all the black magic up close and personal.

Dennis> Ok, here is the but, this is a laptop and I would like to take
Dennis> this on the road. Is there any way to do this yet with these
Dennis> smoking Tiger maps?

Almost all of the Tiger goodness can be achieved offline.  Shapefiles
are your friends.  The README files tell you where to download the
files from and where to stick them as well as what libraries must be
installed to make them work.

Dennis> Dennis, N2LBT

Jack.
(a recent convert to remote operation himself)
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