[Xastir] World shapefile map

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Fri Nov 14 17:18:03 EST 2003


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Wilbert Knol wrote:

> I am trying to get the world map to work (ex README.MAPS) :
>
> ***** A nice world map is available at
> http://aprsworld.net/gisdata/world/
>
> ...but it won't show up in the map chooser. The README says that some
> maps need to be re-projected. Just in case, I tried building the
> re-projection tool in shapelib-1.2.10/contrib ,  ...but the build
> failed, due to a missing proj_api.h as per below:

Doesn't need reprojection.

Try "touch filename" and then "Index: Add New Maps" or try "Index:
Reindex All Maps".

More than likely the timestamp on your new file is older than the
timestamp on your map index file, so Xastir thinks it is an old map.

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