[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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