[Xastir] Adding offline maps?

[Steven May]

Well after cleaning up various permissions, and getting map files into 
the /usr/ocal/share/xastir/maps directory, some of the maps are showing 
up, but not all.  The .map maps are working, but the .shp ones are not. 
  When doing the last configure and make the following was listed:

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xastir 1.3.2 has been configured using the
following external libraries.

Building with AX25.......... : no
Building with Festival...... : no
Building with GPSMan........ : no
Building with ImageMagick... : yes
Building with libproj....... : no
Building with GeoTiff....... : no
Building with GDAL/OGR...... : no
Building with ShapeLib...... : no
Building with pcre.......... : yes
Building with dbfawk........ : no
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So it looks like my attempt to install ShapeLib support via the 
instructions from N1OFZ's web site did not work?  Any other messages 
during the process that I should look out for?

On another note, is there a way to search the mailing list archives 
other than pulling up each month separately?  I hate to post questions 
if I can find the answers there myself.

Thanks again everyone for the help.

Steve
N1ESC


On Sep 13, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Steven May wrote:
>
>> Since one of my main goals in having Xastir is to provide tracking in
>> the field, away from internet access, I now need to find out how to 
>> add
>> maps offline.  I downloaded the Tiger maps that are in shapefile 
>> format
>> from http://xastir.tamu.edu/ as a start.  Even after reading more in
>> the readme's and online, I am now stuck as to how to proceed.  If I am
>> to copy the files to the maps directory I have the problem of an error
>> message saying permission denied.  If there is some other program to
>> run, I must have missed seeing it.
>
> 1) Make sure you install Shapelib at a minimum (see the INSTALL file
> for instructions), and also PCRE if you wish to enable DBFAWK
> functionality.  DBFAWK allows you to customize how the Shapefile
> maps look on your system, on a map-by-map basis if you wish.
>
> 2) Make sure that a normal user has permissions to cd into the map
> directories, plus make sure the files themselves are readable by
> normal users.  Read about the "chmod" command, or perhaps on the Mac
> you have some graphical tool for changing permissions.
>
> 3) Once you have the maps in there, you need to reindex in Xastir so
> that Xastir can compute the file extents of the map, then you're
> ready to use the map.  You can change some properties of the map
> file in the Map Chooser->Properties dialog, and/or use custom dbfawk
> files for this.
>
> --
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