[Xastir] Offline TIGER maps

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Tue Jan 13 18:27:58 EST 2004


On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:53:52PM -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> 
> > Still, is it possible to manually slurp the TIGER data that XASTIR
> > fetches, so it can make use of it while offline?
> 
> Yes.  You'll of course end up with a bunch of raster images that are
> not infinitely scaleable like the Shapefile vector data is, but it
> can be done.
> 
> Look in your ~/.xastir/tmp directory.  If you've got ImageMagick
> support in there (which you must if you're using the online map
> images), then you can turn on Snapshots and see snapshot.geo and
> snapshot.png get created.
> 
> Those are your map and your .geo file to go with it.
> 

Won't these have the stations and tracks, as well as the map data?

Bob, N7XY



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