[Xastir] Tigermap Still Giving Trouble (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

Forwarding a few more messages between Michael and myself to the
list regarding his tigermap troubles.  Hopefully others can pitch in
and help to resolve his problem.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:58:06 -0400
From: Michael J. Wolthuis <wolthui3 at msu.edu>
To: 'Curt Mills' <archer at eskimo.com>
Subject: RE: [Xastir] Tigermap Still Giving Trouble

There is a file in that directory called map.gif and running display map.gif
works great.  However, all the other steps you wrote did not get Xastir to
display it.

Any additional ideas?

Thanks,
Mike
Kb8zgl


-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Mills [mailto:archer at eskimo.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 12:55 PM
To: Michael J. Wolthuis
Cc: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Tigermap Still Giving Trouble

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Michael J. Wolthuis wrote:

> Per Curt's statement I now understand the newer Xastir you select
> tigermap.geo under Online in the Map Chooser.  Now, XASTIR says Loading
> tigermap in the lower left corner, but it doesn't load.  It waits about
> 80secs and then displays my standard DOS APRS Maps.

A few things to try:

Turn off Automaps.

Make sure you're only selecting tigermaps in the Map Chooser.

Make sure the timeout in File->Configure->Timing is set to max for
the tigermap loading.

You should see a map appear after some time.  If the tigermap server
is timing out, you might not get an image from it.

You can check in ~/.xastir/tmp to see if you received an image
though.  Perhaps you received it and ImageMagick isn't displaying it
properly within Xastir.  Try using the "display filename" command
from the command-line to see if your installed ImageMagick can
display the file.

What might be happening is that you've got area fill turned on for
your other maps and they're obscuring the tigermap image below.

-- 
Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
  Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"