[Xastir] README.MAPS Where is it?

[John Kraus]

Ok I now have the system up and running.

I did a search on my system for README.MAPS with various combinations of 
upper and lowercase and this file is not on my system anywhere that I can 
find.  I also looked on google and found a copy on Sourceforge but it did 
not make sense it seemed to be missing critical background information.

I can get the online tiger maps,terraserver and toposerver maps to display. 
Can these be cached for local use with faster load times? If so how?

I downloaded all of the shapefiles from the TAMU site. I placed them into 
the /usr/share/xastir/maps/shapefiles  directory.  I saw them index on 
startup and I see them in mapchoser.  However, I only get small chunks to 
load. IE I will see a few roads near one corner and more on another but 
nothing in the center.  I am working with all of the southeast files so 
there should be no gaps.  Yet Macon seems to be missing completely.  Even 
when these chunks do load it takes at least 10-15 minutes at the 5km range 
scale.  There has got to be a better map system somewhere.

The machine is a 500mhz AMD K-6  with 256 ram and a 4gb swap partition.  I 
would hope it could load a map in less then 10 minutes.

Any suggestions?