[Xastir] Help! I'm stuck in usradar.geo and can't get out!

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Quick'n'dirty (real dirty) work-around:  Xill xastir, go into the maps 
subdirectory and find USradar.geo.  Move it to another, non-referenced 
directory, like, your home directory.  Start xastir.

I've got to revisit that image.  We had some recent server problems and 
the images seems to have grown to unmanagable proportions.  I'll look at 
it either today or tomorrow.

We're also looking at creating mosaics of a set of regions.

I'd *LOVE* to hear from users as to what those regions should comprise.

73, gerry

Rick Green wrote:
> After reading the discussion this past week on the usradar and terraserver
> maps, I decided to give them a try.  While pretty, I find them too
> cluttered for general use, so I'm going back to the pocketaprs map that I
> was using before.  But xastir won't let me!
> 
> FIrst, a comment on terraserver:  Terraserver apparently doesn't have any
> images for my location.  If I zoom in on a location about twenty miles
> east of home, it gives me an image, but if I pan left or zoom out to a
> view that includes any part of the missing area, the layer goes blank
> entirely, not just the western portion that's missing.  With both the
> pocketaprs maps, and usradar.geo, I can zoom out and get a view that
> includes the layer on part of the screen.
> 
> As others have reported, the selection of usradar.geo seems to slow down
> my machine considerably  (albeit it's an old machine: AMD K6-2/450 with
> 128M ram).  Since today is a clear day over the entire state, I decided to
> save all those wasted CPU cycles, and deselected USRADAR.GEO, but it won't
> go away!  I even went so far as to stop xastir and restart it, but it
> promply went into a wait state while it loaded usradar.geo again.  WHen it
> finally began responding to the cursor, I brought up the map chooser, and
> sure enough, USRADAR.GEO was deselected.
> 
> I just tried something else:  I re-selected usradar, then brought up the
> properties dialog, and erased all values associated with usradar.  Close
> the properties dialog, deselect usradar in the chooser, and press OK.  The
> first message that appeared in the status window is 'Loading Usradar.geo'
> ARGHHH!
> 

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