[Xastir] maps

[Curt Mills]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, John Place wrote:
>
> > For some reason, starting yesterday, all stations are not being
> > displayed properly anymore. They are showing up more to the southeast
> > than they should. No changes or updates have been made to the system or
> > Xastir. Tried closing it out and restarting xastir but that didn't work
> > either.
> > Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this? Probably not. HI!
>
> Using which maps?
>
> Possible explanations:
>
> 1) You're trying to use Tigermaps and using a previously loaded
> tigermap as the current fetches are failing.  I've seen this where
> the server was down, but the wget (or libcurl?) fetch didn't report
> failure properly.  Xastir thought that it succeeded, then loaded the
> image that it already had in memory, which, if you haven't panned or
> zoomed lately, might still fit your view.

Sorry, meant: "loaded the image that it already had on disk from a
previous fetch"


> 2) You may be using a map that isn't georeferenced properly.
>
> It's doubtful that the actual station positions are incorrect.  It's
> more likely that your reference to those positions (the map) is
> incorrect.

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