[Xastir] maps

[Gerry Creager]

James Cour wrote:
>>I fully understand your predicament.  I have the same difficulties,
>>switching between topo and street maps constantly.  You can
>>alleviate some of that by reworking your map directories by levels
>>for the shapefiles, and giving the subdirectories good names like
>>streets, water, counties, etc.
>>
>>Something like this:
>>
>>    streets/
>>    water/
>>    counties/
>>    misc/
>>
>>Then just put all eight counties worth of the lkA level under
>>"streets".  Select the subdirectory instead of the individual files
>>and you'll select all the streets in one shot.  A bit of a pain to
>>reorganize, but that's one method that'll work.
> 
> 
> I have played with that approach.  I am still trying to figure out whether I
> am more interested in a particular county, or a particular layer.  Living
> 200 feet north of the county line does not help make the decision any
> easier.  Of course I have the same problem with picking a Wx radar since I
> am near the point where three of them overlap, maybe it would be easier to
> just move?

Which 3?  Need a composite?

>>I don't currently have any plans to implement selection-by-layer in
>>the map chooser, or adding selected maps to the map bookmarks, but.
>>both of those are on the feature request list.
> 
> 
> Selection by layer works so nice for the on-line TIGER maps, hopefully this
> one will make it to the top of the feature list some day.

Worth considering...

73, gerry