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[TATE BELDEN]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 07:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
  "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

Sorry Curt, I'll try this again - I'd replied to all this earlier, but 
apparently my skills with a web based email client ain't all that strong. What 
I get for doing this at work....

>Is it possible that you've run a quite-old Xastir on there at some
>point and your xastir.cnf file has the wrong paths in it?

Nope, brand new FC1 install - only xastir that's been on it is via CVS - 
oldest it could be is 2 weeks.

>You
>should be pointing at /usr/share/local/xastir/maps these days, 

It is - the maps in /usr/share/local/xastir/maps/win and ~/xastir/maps/WY show 
as expected in the map chooser.

>Go into the maps directories where you're having troubles with the
>files and try "display filename".  

These aren't 'map' files per se, but the ASCII text, geo files to pull the 
online NWS weather doppler weather imagry direct from the various offices. The 
USRadar.geo file included with the CVS of xastir is working - has that 
relpaced these individual geo files? It dosen't seem to provide near the 
detail I'm looking for.

ftp://ftp.kc7zru.net/xastir/maps/Srb_geos.zip for the whole collection of 
srb_xxx.geo files I'm trying to use here.

Results for using 'display' on what map file types I've got:

$ display usancen.map
display: Must specify image size (usancen.map).

$ display srb_yux.geo
display: No decode delegate for this image format (srb_yux.geo).

>Make sure that ImageMagick has
>the proper support compiled in for the map types you're dealing
>with.

Using the URL in the geo files, snagged one of the radar GIF files. Saved it 
locally and then used 'display latest.gif' to view it. Looks fine.

>I assume your summary.log file shows ImageMagick if you're able to
>access online maps.
Here's my summary.log file contents and yes, tigermap.geo works great:
  Festival ShapeLib ImageMagick libProj GeoTiff GDAL/OGR PCRE

>Check your ~/.xastir/config/map_index.sys file to see if those maps
>got indexed at all.
The directory gets listed like this in map_index.sys:
0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,00000,0,0,00000,00000,geos/
0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,00000,0,0,00000,00000,win/
0064764520,0002328160,0000005250,0129896460,00000,0,1,00000,00000,win/World_Countries.map

Files in all directories get their own listing - except for the srb_xxx.geo.

Permissions on the directory itself:
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 10 12:04 geos
Same permissions as on the win and WY directories that do get listed in Map 
Chooser.

Example of how permissions are set on the files:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   215 May 11 11:11 srb_yux.geo
Same permissions as other map files that get listed in chooser.

Do these srb_xxx.geo files need to be in the ~/xastir/maps/Online directory?

Thanks again! Hope this one goes through this time....

Tate