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[Curt Mills, WE7U]

>On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Orrin Winton wrote:
>
>> You write, in part:
>> 
>> >The code could be highjacked/extended to cache online 
>> >maps to the local drive for an area...
>> 
>> That's what i want to do, cache online tigermaps and
>> use them later, because downloading layers of
>> hundreds of shapefiles is getting to be too tedious.
>> 
>> So should i wait a while yet, because the code 
>> hasn't yet been "extended to cache online maps"?
>
>I personally don't have any plans to go in that direction, sorry.
>You might try to get another developer interested in it short-term.
>I have several other things that I want to get to, and really need to
>get to the KAM integration before I can get to the SAR things I want
>to add.
>
>Just for a bit of direction, the snapshot code could be hijacked to
>do what you want.  Perhaps cycle through multiple creates of
>snapshots/.geo files while panning one screen to the right for each
>one, saving each to a new filename so none are lost.
>
>I suppose you could do this more manually as well:  Create a script
>that would constantly check for a new .PNG file.  If found, copy it
>and the .geo file to a new name and tweak the first line of the .geo
>file to incorporate that new name.  Then pan, click the snapshot
>button on and back off, then pan again, click the button on/off
>again...
>
>Another option would be to tweak Xastir to write to a different
>incrementing filename with each snapshot, including writing the
>correct filename into the .geo file for each.  Wouldn't be
>difficult to do that at all.
>
>Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
>http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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