[Xastir] maps, etc

[James Jolin]

Curt, WE7U wrote:

>On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, James Jolin wrote:
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>>Have not tired  Dos/WinAprs maps.  You have the url?  Do they cover the
>>state of Wisconsin?
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>There are DOSAprs and WinAPRS-format maps for all kinds of areas all
>over the world.  These are vector maps and are not all the pretty to
>look at, but they mostly do the job.  Something like
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>PocketAPRS maps should be available from www.pocketaprs.com.
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>Go to the end of my APRS Client Capabilities Chart at
>http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/aprs_capabilities.html
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>There you'll find links to most of the current APRS clients.  The
>WinAPRS site should have links that take you to downloadable maps,
>or you can go to the www.tapr.org site and look there.
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>>I have a maps directory with geo files ( two for Canada, tigermaps
>>topomaps, etc). My version of xastir is 1.3.1. I will have to check the
>>path.  What is the migration script?  This could be the problem because
>>the debug says something about "can't find some configure file." Sorry,
>>but I am in Windows right now and I can't look it up
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>Send the exact string please, and we might be able to help a bit
>more.  Look for error/warning messages inside the xterm that you
>start Xastir from.
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>The migration scripts are in the xastir/scripts directory:
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>    xastir-migrate.sh
>    xastir-fixcfg.sh
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>You'll only need to run those if you originally had an older Xastir
>that placed maps into the /usr/local/xastir/maps directory.  The new
>location is /usr/local/share/xastir/maps.
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>You need to run "xastir-migrate.sh" as the root user.
>"xastir-fixcfg.sh" is run as a normal user, but once per user
>account that needs their config scripts converted to the new system.
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>>I just use one map at a time like you said once before.
>>Lastly,  Help about says: "libraries used--  ax25, shapelib, libproj,
>>geotiff, pcre and imagemagick."
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>To the other developers:  I wonder if we should add "wget" and/or
>"libcurl" to that list, so that we can tell whether people have the
>support compiled in?
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>--
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Curt,
Some clarifications:  the path is correct--don't need to migrate 
anything.  I was in error about some config file not found.  There are 
no errors in xterm.  Would you like the whole run.log or would that be 
too large?
Will try the urls you sent me.  Do vector maps go in the maps directory?
Jim wa9arb