[Xastir] making maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Wes Johnston wrote:

> I have a friend in Brazil who has "enhanced" some of the garmin
> mapsource maps by recording his own breadcrumb trails and adding them to
> the gamin maps.


> In the end, my friend wants to have better maps of brazil than are
> presently available on findu or aprsworld, and my suggestion was that if
> he could get his maps to shapelib files that Jim at aprsworld would
> probably include them.

Any tracks that he has done can be distributed.  Any of the Garmin
maps probably cannot.  I suspect they are under some sort of
restrictive license.

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