[Xastir] maps

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> I use the Tiger data that was converted to Shapefiles by ESRI or
> the newer Tiger data that was converted by one of the Xastir users
> (developer?  Can't remember who did the conversions now).  Those

Me.

> files are separate by layer, and I normally turn on only streets, or
> only streets/rivers/lakes, so I don't have to spend time loading all
> the rest of the stuff.

Really, without dbfawk, Tiger data sort of sucks. With it, you get a 
decent base map set for most things, at a cost of very little disk space, 
and very little cpu usage.