[Xastir] YAFRODU

[John Kraus]

At 04:06 PM 2/21/2005, you wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Tapio Sokura wrote:
>
> > John Kraus wrote:
> > > You missed my point.  Xastir has no actual maps in the basic install
> > > unless you have an internet connection.  I think this is a bad idea
> >
> > The world shapefile is included with Xastir, it has country names,
> > borders and large waters (at least oceans, hi). But I guess the problem
> > with that is that shapefile support is not a part of the basic set of
> > supported map formats. I agree that some kind of always usable basic
> > world map would be a good idea, and by default zoomed enough out so you
> > can actually see that it is a world map.
>
>
>After spending a bunch of time searching around the net, I'm coming
>... base "winaprs" format and is freely
>distributable isn't easy.
>
>Finding winaprs maps isn't too hard, nor is finding basic outline or


This is why I think the DosAPRS maps should be first choice.

Created by hams for hams no license issues at all.

Very compact and fast so no real overhead on downloads or lightweight hardware.

Tools exist to modify these maps to any reasonable level of precision 
needed for basic operations.

The hard part is getting someone to include them in the distribution on 
Sourceforge.

I have uploaded a file to my website with a basic selection of dos maps.

http://kc4zgq.com/dos_maps.zip