[Xastir] Prefered map format?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Curt Mills, WE7U <hacker at tc.fluke.com> [2003 Nov 06 11:56 -0600]:

> If you can define specifically what you don't like about the
> Shapefile street maps, perhaps someone on here can help you to
> change your settings so that they do meet your requirements.  More
> information than "doesn't look like the Tigermap server" please.
> ;-)

I'll take a shot, Curt.

For one, I do like the street map display as that is how I would find
APRS to be most useful.  What I liked about the Tiger server images were
the nice way that federal highways are colored and state and secondary
roads were black or gray.  In my experiments with the ERSI maps did
result in the federal highways being a heavier line, but still black.

I like the server maps that colored in incorporated town boundaries
while the ERSI file only had a colored line drawn, but no fill even
though I had the Enable color fill option activated.  I liked the river
and lake polygons being filled.

I like also that as one zoomed out the graphic didn't seem to become a
jumbled mess.  I have levels turned on, but the highway names and all
the roads were visible rather than being ignored.  I also didn't find
the magic file that contained town names nor highway numbers.  I did
find that the street names in a town did disappear beyond a certain
zoom-out.

Perhaps I can send a screenshot of what I'm getting.

As I learn more I hope to contribute some as that is how a better
program develops.  I think the real problems are few, but a street map
display that exceeds the screenshots of WinAPRS would be too cool.

73, de Nate >>

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