[Xastir] maps

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

This morning, I went to the TigerMap site, and yea, verily, *IT* wasn't 
displaying maps.  Something's hosed up, or at least was this morning.

gerry

Ed Lawson wrote:
> I just restarted Xastir (had to reboot from a Kernel update) and Xastir
> came up with no Tigermap.  The strange thing is that it doesn't appear to
> even be looking for them... it immediately seemed to start parsing
> stations.  There have been no changes on my end in ~ 6weeks.
> 
> Ed  W5ZS
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> On 2/20/2004 at 2:25 PM Curt Mills wrote:
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>>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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