[Xastir] Tips on organizing many many maps?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Having the files at our disposal will be cool.  Let me see what I've got 
for TigerMaps for Texas already.  Where do I need to send 'em, or would 
you like a site to sftp them from?

gerry

Organization?  I'm not organized... as my home desktop will testify. 
Sorry.  Can't help there!

Gerry

Jack Twilley wrote:
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> I've decided to put my copious free time to use by downloading
> shapefiles for every county in the United States.  I'm up to six
> states (CA, NV, NM, AZ, CT, RI) and I have nearly 4300 maps.
> 
> If anyone has any stylish manner of hacking the map_index.sys to force
> zoom and level settings, that'd be grand.  The interface in xastir is
> great for modifying a few maps, but it's cumbersome with many.
> 
> Also, the current default for newly-indexed maps is "automap on",
> which may or may not be such a good idea -- for my specific case, it's
> not so great, let me tell you. :-)  Is what I'm doing sufficiently
> unique that the current default is good?
> 
> The license for the maps I'm downloading allows me to distribute them
> any way I want as long as it doesn't violate the original Census
> license.  What sort of organization would be best?  I download the
> following shapefiles:  county 2000, designated places 2000, key
> geographic locations, landmark points, line features (all), and water
> polygons.  Suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Jack.
> - -- 
> Jack Twilley
> jmt at twilley dot org
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