[Xastir] Re: Cygwin Xastir help needed (Curt Mills)

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:43:47AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, KK6RW wrote:
> 
> > Some partial success. I redid the Shapelib install procedure as defined in
> > README.win32 and now showing Shapelib support=yes. I also show dbfawk=yes
> > however, I am still unable to view any shapefile maps. I have downloaded the
> > WA.zip shapefile map from http://xastir.tamu.edu/ but cannot get anything to
> > show. I tried the maps at http://wetnet.net/~we7u/xastir/maps/shapefile/USA/
> > but again after untarring and placing in the map folders and setting the
> > permissions, still nothing. I'm pretty sure the APRS version of the NTSB
> > would classify this problem as pilot error, I would sure appreciate any
> > suggestions.
> 
> Did you reindex?  Are they showing up in the map chooser?  Are you
> able to select them, but then they won't load?

Also, if you're using raster maps and shapefile maps together, there is
a possibility (probability) that your shapefiles are underneath the raster.

If you turn off the online tiger and toposerver maps, do your shapefiles
show up?  If that's the case, then you just have to use map properties to
bump the layer number for your shapefiles up above the default of 0 --
if everything's at 0, things get rendered in alphabetical order.  

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