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

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

OK, OK!  I'll start looking at alternatives for the USRadar gif... 
Tiffs, anyone?  :-)  Just kidding.

Changing to the png version in the .geo file results in a 35% file size 
decrease; the rest of the .geo file is unaffected...

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       390097 Oct  5 07:44 01_USrad.gif
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       411308 Oct  5 07:45 01_USrad.jpg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       265654 Oct  5 07:45 01_USrad.png
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     15021808 Oct  5 07:45 01_USrad.tif

I'll see about diminishing the bits/pixel to save some space.  I should 
be able to do that in the ImageMagick conversion...

I've *STILL* not heard suggestions from folks about subdividing the 
country.  This is your chance: Give me corner points and I can create 
what amounts to a custom mosaic for you; get enough requests and we can 
cove the country, make the UI-View users happy, too, and have what we 
all need/want in radar coverage.

73, gerry

Rick Green wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> 
>>>my directory, not just the ones that are being loaded.  Should I have
>>>deleted that file as well?
>>
>>That contains the disk version of your map indexes and your
>>preferences for each map file.  You could try renaming this file
>>then starting up Xastir again, but you'll have to reindex in order
>>to recreate a new file.
> 
>  I again shut down xastir, then deleted both selected_maps.sys and
> map_index.sys, then restarted xastir.  it came up with the same center and
> zoom as before, but with no maps.  I reindexed the maps, and now the
> contents of the Online/ subdirectory show in the chooser.  I selected
> tigermap.geo at layer 2 and Michigan.pdb at layer 4, set tigermap to
> display only below zoom level 300, and I'm back to where I started.  I
> don't know if I'm ready to try USRadar.geo again!
> 
> 
>>I'm wondering if there might be an off-by-one problem in the map
>>index lookup somewhere, so that the wrong map is getting drawn on
>>your system.
> 
>   You said that the map_index.sys file contains preferences.  Is that
> where layer, min/max zoom, and the automap flag are stored?  Is it
> possible that the program might be looking there as well as in
> selected_maps.sys, so that when a map is deselected without first
> resetting all the preferences to null, it gets confused and thinks its
> still selected?
> 

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