[Xastir] maps

[Chris Hare]

the only thing I have set for load right now is the online tiger map of
the US and the weather counties stuff.  I disabled the other maps for
the moment.  the processor is a 1.6GHZ P4 running RH9.


On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 11:54, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> The NWS shapefile maps in the Counties directory are only for displaying 
> weather alerts. They don't pull any weather data by loading them.
> 
> By weather maps, do you mean radar, satellite, something else? You can find 
> .GEO maps that will pull radar images on Curt's ftp site at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/a/archer/aprs/xastir/radar-geos.tgz
> 
> But note that if you pick several radar maps at the same time, it can take a 
> few minutes to load each one off of the internet.
> 
> You didn't say what other maps you had enabled or how fast your processor is.
> 
> -Lance
> 
> On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:46, Chris Hare wrote:
> > Well, it can take minutes i.e. 2 or 3 with each pan or zoom action, with
> > only the maps for texas loaded.  admittedly, maybe there are too many
> > items enabled on the maps, so I can experiment there.
> >
> > however, what I REALLY want to see is the online weather maps ....
> > I downloaded all the NWS shapefile maps and put them in coutnies, but I
> > would like to use a weeather image as the map overlay.  maybe I am not
> > doing something right here
> >
> > On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 11:05, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> > > Can you quantify "slow to load"? How long in seconds (or minutes?) does
> > > it take to draw the map? How many maps are you using? What is enabled in
> > > the Map Chooser? And most importantly, how fast is the computer you are
> > > running Xastir on?  (and how much RAM does it have in it?)
> > >
> > > -Lance KJ5O
> > >
> > > On Saturday 24 May 2003 10:48, Chris Hare wrote:
> > > > I am running Version 1.1.4 on Red Hat 9.
> > > >
> > > > I have maps, but they are slow to load and I can't get satellite or
> > > > weather maps to display.  I have tiger maps currently enabled
> > > >
> > > > I am not running CVS.....
> >
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