[Xastir] Mapping

[Gerry Creager]

I can hit it from inside the TAMU firewall, and the firewall status page 
shows it open.  If you can get to it with a web  browser, it is 
working... especially if you used the url ftp://aprs.tamu.edu

Try again, but when you invoke ftp from the command line or the gui, 
don't use the ftp:// URL qualifier.

Drop me a note or call my cell (tomorrow, please; I need to hit the sack 
for a long day tomorrow) if you need help.  If there's a problem we want 
to identify it and fix it.

73 gerry

Eric Christensen wrote:
> I can get to this site via a web browser but couldn't get connected when
> trying to connect to it with a FTP client.  I'd like to be able to grab
> all the data at once via FTP.  Is this available?
> 
> Eric KF4OTN
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
>> Well I managed to download the shapefiles for my county based off of the
>> Tiger map data from
>> ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/Maps/TIGER/xastir.tamu.edu/2004/counties/TN/
>>
>> Inside the zip file I see this:
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   2516491 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.dbf
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   1368321 2005-02-27 07:38
>> TN_Carter_County_Poly.dbf
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   1746272 2005-02-27 07:38
>> TN_Carter_County_Poly.shp
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root     25444 2005-02-27 07:38
>> TN_Carter_County_Poly.shx
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root       257 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.prj
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   1700828 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shp
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root    103820 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shx
>>
>> I unzipped these all to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and started up xastir,
>> and found the corresponding shapefile in the maps chooser menu and was able
>> to get the map to show up in xastir. Not the prettiest thing in the world,
>> but at least it's working.
>>
>> Reading over this page
>> http://www.swcp.com/~russo/shape_web/tutorial.htmland it appears that
>> there are a lot of options you can configure, but a
>> little of this was over my head at this point.
>>
>> So now that I have some data, I would like to make it look like the
>> original
>> tiger data and dont really know where to begin? What are all those
>> different
>> files for and how can I start editing this to my liking?
>>
>> I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and
>> Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow
>> use
>> that data as well if xastir supports it?
>>
>> I have to say this is the most I have ever used xastir and it is the most
>> advanced APRS program I have ever used. Good job devs. I got Festival
>> working and that is just utterly amazing, it was so cool to hear my
>> messages
>> read off to me!
>>
>> 73's
>> Stephen
>> N1VLV
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/9/06, Darryl Gibson <n2diy at losch.net > wrote:
>>> Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
>>>> What would be the best option based on what I want? Also, is there a
>>> good
>>>> tutorial or reference that explains all these different types of maps
>>>> available?
>>> I'm in the same position as you are, so I'll be following this thread
>>> closely.
>>>
>>> Curious, I have a copy of Street Atlas, can I extract map files from
>>> that?
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Darryl Gibson N2DIY
>>> RLU X 182668/379552
>>>
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>>> distinction of a free man from a slave."   --  Andrew Fletcher, A
>>> Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698)
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