[Xastir] Free map access (was: Compression algorithm problem withDRGs)

[Josh Keller]

I think that would be a great idea. I've only been into this for a couple of
weeks now and I've found tons of maps, just not the ones for the specific
area I need for our SAR laptop. I've spent days updating, reinstalling,
recompiling, making sure I did everything correctly trying to get the maps
to work, and finally figured out yesterday why they don't. Today I spent all
day on 2 tasks, sorting through the 2GB of maps I've downloaded over the
last 2 weeks and trying to make the ones work that don't (a large portion of
them), but have not been successful.

For a newcomer, having everything in one place, or easily accessible would
be nice, and probably cut down on a lot of questions from people like me :-)

Josh

BTW if anyone has 1:24,000 DRGs for Multnomah County, the 45122* series, or
knows where to get *working* ones I would greatly appreciate it.


-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On Behalf
Of Jeff Barlow
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:00
To: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: [Xastir] Free map access (was: Compression algorithm problem
withDRGs)

"Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>  wrote:

>Perhaps if we had enough people volunteer to support one or two
>state's worth, we could put up a reference page that would point
>people to the download sites of interest.

That would be pretty much ideal. If someone were to come up with a
boiler plate web page, where each volunteer just had to fill in the
state name and such like, this could even be uniform and easy to use.

I just moved from southern California to Bend, Oregon. Most of my stuff
is still in boxes. I better not volunteer to do much till I get a little
more organized. My interest is mostly Oregon maps, of course. (Feeling
pretty lost here)

I am on cable here. I might have enough uplink bandwidth to make
something like that work. I haven't tried running any kind of server
here yet, though. My ISP might have ports blocked for all I know. I do
plan to fool around with that one of these days. 

Jeff Barlow
WB6CSV
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