[Xastir] tiger maps?

Curt Mills, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Thu Oct 30 23:05:36 EST 2003


On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Brenda Wallace wrote:

> what is a tiger map??
> I turned them on, and there was a burst of ethernet traffic.
> Is it looking for a server or something? these was no error message but
> nothing happened either.

It's a U.S.-specific thing.  Maps from census.gov, the U.S. census
agency.  Vector street maps.

If you zoom in close on an area of the U.S., and if their server is
up and running, you should see a street map image pop up.

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