[Xastir] maps

[Chris Hare]

okay - great thanks for the help.  one final question on maps .... where
do I put the geo maps you mentioned?

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 12:14, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> 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