[Xastir] maps

[Kurt A. Freiberger]

Someday, I'll have to sit down with a fifth of something, and get someone to explain Maps 101 to me in words of less than two syllables.  In that, I'm as confused as a milkman at a crematorium.

73/Kurt

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:32:24 -0600
Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> > 
> > On 2/20/2004 at 2:25 PM Curt Mills wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>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.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
> >>http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> >> Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
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> >>The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
> >>
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Kurt A. Freiberger     Austin, TX	kurt at badgers-hill.net
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"Some poeple are like Slinkys - Generally considered useless, but
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