[Xastir] Online tigermaps display

[Bob Nielsen]

Very nice (and much faster, of course!)

Bob, N7XY

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:04:28AM -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Daniel H. Brown wrote:
> 
> > > DB->get: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data pair found
> >
> > This is just a warning from the caching routines that you don't have
> > anything for this particular view in the cache database, currently.  In the
> > code, it should be a "fall through" sort of thing, where, if you don't have
> > something in the cache, it will fall through into the normal "download a
> > new copy" from tiger.census.gov.
> >
> > I'm installing cygwin this morning, and will see if I see the same problem.
> > More in a bit.
> 
> For anyone who hasn't guessed by now, Daniel Brown wrote some nice
> map caching code for online Tigermaps.  If you have the proper db
> libraries and header files installed, Xastir's configure will find
> them and automatically compile in the caching support.  The caching
> of course reduces our load on the Tigermap server, which improves
> its response for everyone else.
> 
> If you've tried this map caching and have positive or negative
> comments about how it works, I'm sure Dan would like to hear them.
> It's the first implementation, but for what it does it does it fast!
> 
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