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

[Chris]

I'm gonna suggest TX as one map or even NTX and STX, but that's just a former student talking...

Chris
W5MCK
Class of '98


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
Date:  Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:54:16 -0500

>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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