[Xastir] maps

[J. Lance Cotton]

The online tiger map can take a long time to load if you select many details 
on the map. The map server can get very loaded down at times. That's not any 
function of Xastir, though, only of the  mapserver and your internet 
connection.

The weather counties that you put in the Counties folder aren't really used as 
maps. They just define what areas to highlight when xastir receives an 
weather alert packet over an internet feed.

-Lance KJ5O

On Saturday 24 May 2003 12:09, Chris Hare wrote:
> 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

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J. Lance Cotton, KJ5O
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