[Xastir] YAFRODU

[Jason Winningham]

On Feb 21, 2005, at 8:59 AM, John Kraus wrote:

> Yes this is one of the most frustrating things about Xastir.  I have a 
> system running now and seldom use it due to the incredible amount of 
> time needed to get a working set of maps for OFFLINE use.

If you compile nothing but the basic xastir you get APRSDOS map 
support.  IIRC, this doesn't even require imagemagick.    This should 
be easy, if you have development tools loaded on your system.

If you add imagemagick you get support for a large number of raster 
maps ( I think uiview maps are drop-in at that point).

If you add shapefile support and dbfawk support, a large number of 
vector maps become available.

I have built a fully loaded xastir (no AX.25 support, but everything 
else) on a Fedora Core 2 box using nothing but the xastir source as 
downloaded from sourceforge and RPMs for all the support packages.  
RPMs for the support packages are easy to install and pretty easy to 
find.

If you try to build all the support packages from source (like I did on 
Mac OS X) it's a little more involved, but quite doable.

I guess my point is, don't get overwhelmed by all the choices.  Look at 
what maps you want to use, then add support for those maps.  The 
READMEs tell you which packages you need for which types of maps, and 
contain pointers to information about those packages to help you get 
them installed.

-Jason
kg4wsv