[Xastir] README.MAPS Where is it?

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Seems about normal, I am using a 700 Meg 256K Mem, system.
Slow load seems to be download time, Cache seemed to help Tiger Maps but not
Radar Maps, which makes sence to me.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, John Kraus wrote:

> 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?
> 
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