[Xastir] maps

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Tue Aug 10 11:09:36 EDT 2004


On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, John Place wrote:

> Did anyone come up with a procedure to download maps from Tiger and get
> the set same presentation as the online maps? The online maps are
> getting painfully slow even after deleting the selected_maps.sys file.

Are the Shapefile versions of the same from local disk not suitable
for your purposes?  I prefer vector maps over raster for nearly all
cases.  I run the Shapefile tiger data while mobile.

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