[Xastir] Offline TIGER maps

[Matt Werner]

>> > 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?


Just create the snapshots with all interfaces stopped.  You can also clear all
of the stations on the map from the menus.

73 - Matt
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