[Xastir] maps

[J. Lance Cotton]

Brenda Wallace wrote:
> that's what i thought that feature did, but it doesn't seem to work for
> images.
> i have lots of aerial photos available to xastir.
> when i zoom out to national level, i can see xastir loading each aerial
> map photo one by one, which isn't much use once I'm that far out...
> what have i missed?

Well, it only works on shapefile maps and possibly other vector maps. I bet 
if you ask nicely, Curt might add another option to the Map Properties 
dialog to set the display level...

> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 16:26, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> 
>>A good idea. So good that it's already implemented! For shapefile maps, if 
>>you choose Map->Enable Map Levels, Xastir will do this, only displaying 
>>appropriate information on the screen. I haven't found that this speeds up 
>>the loading much, since Xastir still has to look through every element in 
>>the shape file (but only load those in view).


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