[Xastir] Map Layering

[Chip G.]

I just updated to the latest CVS on my main Xastir machine. This was  
the update listing (and when it was done):

> Mon Nov 20 17:19:08 EST 2006
> --------------------         Getting CVS Update         
> --------------------
>
> ? myupdate.out
> ? myupdate.sh
> ? scripts/fcc-get-chip
> ? scripts/get-NWSdata-chip
> ? scripts/get-gnis-chip
> ? src/compiledate.c
> P .cvsignore
> U ChangeLog
> P INSTALL
> P Makefile.am
> P README.Contributing
> P README.Getting-Started
> P README.MAPS
> P README.win32
> P configure.ac
> U worldhi.map
> P xastir-min.spec.in
> P xastir.1
> P xastir.spec.in
> P scripts/BUILDRPMS
> P scripts/fcc-get
> P scripts/get-maptools.sh
> P src/.cvsignore
> P src/Makefile.am
> P src/main.c
> P src/xa_config.c
> U src/shapelib/.cvsignore
> U src/shapelib/ChangeLog
> U src/shapelib/LICENSE.LGPL
> U src/shapelib/Makefile.am
> U src/shapelib/Makefile_shapelib_orig
> U src/shapelib/README
> U src/shapelib/README.tree
> U src/shapelib/dbf_api.html
> U src/shapelib/dbfadd.c
> U src/shapelib/dbfcreate.c
> U src/shapelib/dbfdump.c
> U src/shapelib/dbfopen.c
> U src/shapelib/libtool
> U src/shapelib/makefile.vc
> U src/shapelib/makeshape.sh
> U src/shapelib/mkinstalldirs
> U src/shapelib/shapefil.h
> U src/shapelib/shapelib.def
> U src/shapelib/shapelib.html
> U src/shapelib/shp_api.html
> U src/shapelib/shpadd.c
> U src/shapelib/shpcreate.c
> U src/shapelib/shpdump.c
> U src/shapelib/shpopen.c
> U src/shapelib/shprewind.c
> U src/shapelib/shptest.c
> U src/shapelib/shptree.c
> U src/shapelib/shptreedump.c
> U src/shapelib/shputils.c
> U src/shapelib/stream1.out
> U src/shapelib/stream1.sh
> U src/shapelib/stream2.out
> U src/shapelib/stream2.sh
> U src/shapelib/stream3.out
> U src/shapelib/contrib/.cvsignore
> U src/shapelib/contrib/Makefile.am
> U src/shapelib/contrib/Makefile_orig
> U src/shapelib/contrib/ShapeFileII.pas
> U src/shapelib/contrib/dbfcat.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/dbfinfo.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/makefile.vc
> U src/shapelib/contrib/my_nan.h
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpcat.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpcentrd.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpdata.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpdxf.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpfix.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpgeo.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpgeo.h
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpinfo.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpproj.c
> U src/shapelib/contrib/shpwkb.c

After the update I immediately noticed that map layering wasn't  
working as I recall it working before. I have Tigermaps set as layer  
"1" and an very very old generic world map set as "-999". This used  
to make the generic invisible except when Tigermaps couldn't/didn't  
load. But now it is appearing over Tigermaps. So I tried setting the  
generic layer to "999" and had the same result. So now I don't know  
how to make it invisible.

OK, never mind. If I disable all maps, I still have a generic world  
map. So that is still something new and a little weird. I don't mind  
it being there, except I'd like it to be at the lowest possible layer  
so that my "pretty" raster map covers it.

Thoughts?

This is my compile config:

> xastir 1.8.5 has been configured to use the following
> options and external libraries:
>
> Building with AX25 ................................. : no
> Building with Festival ............................. : no
> Building with GPSMan ............................... : no
> Building with ImageMagick .......................... : yes
> Building with libproj .............................. : yes
> Building with GeoTiff .............................. : yes
> Building with GDAL/OGR ............................. : yes
> Building with ShapeLib ............................. : yes
> Building with pcre ................................. : yes
> Building with dbfawk ............................... : yes
> Building with map caching .......................... : yes
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Building with ErrorPopups (Old Method) ............. : no
> Building with libgc (Debug) ........................ : no
> Building with profiling (Debug) .................... : yes
> Building with rtree indexing (Experimental) ........ : yes
> Building with Linux Standard Base (Experimental) ... : no


73,
--de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn