[Xastir] Re: Canadian topo maps

[Tom Robson, ve7did]

This may be asking the moon, but can these files be broken up such that "say" 
only BC & Alberta (or some coordinate boundaries) are downloaded?
I suspect not, but just had to ask....

...73 Tom

On October 11, 2004 08:56 am, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Two new scripts were added to Xastir last week, "toporama250k.pl"
> and "toporama50k.pl".  By invoking one of these scripts you will
> download either the 1:250k or 1:50k sets of Canadian Toporama topo
> maps.  The script then creates the .geo files that Xastir needs to
> georeference the images.  You'll also have to index the maps within
> Xastir as the final step.
>
> I believe they cover all of Canada, so these downloads are quite
> large.  The 1:50k set of maps is of course much larger than the
> 1:250k set:
>
>     250k: 404MB (w/.geo files generated)
>      50k: 5.6GB (w/.geo files generated)
>
> You may still use the online version of the toporama maps from
> within Xastir, but for mobile operation or for dial-up lines you
> might want to get your own local set of topo maps installed and use
> them instead, as described above.
>
> --
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