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

[BDonnell at ar-northwest.com]

Another condition to consider - if the shapefiles or other vector maps
are loaded before a raster map, the raster map rendering will overwrite
the vector map, making it invisible, even though it might have loaded.
This is where map levels comes into play.  Or for testing purposes,
disable all raster maps and see if the vector maps appear 'as if by
magic'...

73, Bob, KD7NM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
> Behalf Of Curt, WE7U
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:44 AM
> To: KK6RW
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: [Xastir] Re: Cygwin Xastir help needed (Curt Mills)
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> The trick with Shapefiles:  There's no standard format for the DBF
> portion of the file, which is where all of the attributes/labels are
> stored.  The attributes can be of any number/type/order.  If Xastir
> has been hard-coded to recognize the map (and you're not using
> dbfawk), then it'll display nicely.  If you've got dbfawk installed
> and you have either a default dbfawk file that works with the map or
> a specific dbfawk file for it, then you're also in good shape.
> 
> It's when you have either of these two conditions that you might
> have trouble displaying the map:
> 
>     No dbfawk installed, map type not hard-coded into Xastir.
>     Dbfawk installed but no matching dbfawk file for your map.
> 
> 
> > I'm not sure if my messing around with the Shapefiles have 
> caused this new
> > problem but I am now having problems displaying the online 
> toposerve and
> > online terraserver maps. If they do load, they come show as 
> a small area in
> > the upper right ( as seen in the image: 
> http://kk6rw.com/xastirscrn2.png ).
> 
> That shows you have two rasters selected.  Don't do that.  Just
> select one online raster image at a time.  About the only ways it
> might make sense to select more than one raster at a time are:
> 
>     Lots of one type of raster, which tile together to make a larger
>     map.
> 
>     Online radar images where part of it is transparent, so that the
>     lower raster image can show through.
> 
> 
> > The last item. I am running AGW oin Xastir using AGWPE pro. 
> I have 2 tnc
> > ports available. In setup of AGW in Xastir, I specify port 
> 2 yet both ports
> > are still feeding Xastir. I have tried a combination and 
> still get both
> > ports feeding Xastir. Is there someplace to look for this 
> problem or is
> > Xastir capable of using selective ports on AGW?
> 
> It is capable of that.  For transmit.  For receive it uses a
> function in AGWPE where all packets on all ports come into Xastir.
> 
> --
> Curt, WE7U			         http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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