[Xastir] Maps, Defaults, and Chooser

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:15:52PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> I'll add my 2 cents into this discussion.
> 
> I use automaps. The way that I use them is that I have all of my "normal" maps
> setup as automaps="yes". I have a variety of maps in this category:
>   terraserver
>   radar
>   shapefiles of just the USA (with states)
>   shapefiles for counties
>   interstate roads
>   other major roads
>   tiger maps (divided by state)
>   local repeater locations (dbf)
>   gnis data
> and have the min/max zoom set so I get more detail as I zoom in.
> 
> I turn off automaps to disable all of these maps and look at something
> specific. When I'm ready to go back to my normal display, I simply re-enable
> automaps. If there was a way to associate a collection of maps together so
> they could be enabled/disabled all together, then I could easily do without
> automaps.

A general "map set" tool would be a welcome addition.  You've got automaps 
working for you as a single map set, and if it were replaced by a more 
general tool designed for that purpose allowing multiple map sets instead 
of a single on or off map set, that'd be cool.  I'd certainly use it.

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