[Xastir] Fwd: Maps won't display?

Tim Schall ka7pbi at fortgirlfriend.com
Sun Oct 24 19:10:18 EDT 2004


Come to find out that Xastir does in fact download the map from the census 
servers...

Then explodes with:

Create image start
left side is -124.284925
right side is -119.983925
top  is 48.449156
bottom is 46.685600
lat center is 47.567378
long center is -122.134425
screen width is 1020
screen height is 620
map width is 4.301000
map height is 1.763556
fileimg is 
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&off=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=47.567378&lon=-122.134425&wid=4.301000&ht=1.763556&iwd=1020&iht=620
ftp or http file: 
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&off=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=47.567378&lon=-122.134425&wid=4.301000&ht=1.763556&iwd=1020&iht=620
/usr/bin/wget --server-response --timestamping --tries=1 --timeout=180 
--output-document=/root/.xastir/tmp/map.gif 
'http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&off=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=47.567378&lon=-122.134425&wid=4.301000&ht=1.763556&iwd=1020&iht=620' 
2> /dev/null
Channel data on Port 0 [KA7PBI-12>APRS,SOMTN*,TRACE3-2:!4736.95N/12218.53W& 
Linux APRS Server ]
Copied /root/.xastir/tmp/map.gif into image info.
image_info got: /root/.xastir/tmp/map.gif
Entered ImageMagick code.
Attempting to open: /root/.xastir/tmp/map.gif
xastir: UnableToOpenBlob.


On Sunday 24 October 2004 15:55, Tim Schall wrote:
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Maps won't display?
> Date: Sunday 24 October 2004 15:48
> From: Tim Schall <ka7pbi at fortgirlfriend.com>
> To: xastir at xastir.og
>
> OK, here's 'da scoop.  SuSE 9.0 box.  No Xastir.  Upgrade to SuSE 9.1. 
> After the usual dance with ImageMagick dependencies Xastir finds
> ImageMagick and compiles.  Life is good, right?  WRONG!  Everything works
> fine except the maps (None of them, online, offline or otherwise.) display
> on the terminal. There's lots of grinding and mashing on the harddrive but
> after about 15 seconds it just goes back to plotting stations on a blank
> map.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Tim Schall
> KA7PBI
>
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