[Xastir] Offline TIGER maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> 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?

Not if you don't open up any interfaces.  You can also turn off all
the filters so that your own station goes away.

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