[Xastir] maps
John Place
jplace at sc.rr.com
Tue Aug 10 19:18:56 EDT 2004
Are they available by all states? And where can they be downloaded?
I think I used the maps from xastir.tamu.edu. To turn on layers? Are you
refering to the configure tigermaps?
Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 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.
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