[Xastir] Tigermaps not working?

[Rick Green]

Pardon me if this is an old issue.  I see that there was some mention in 
July of the tigermap servers being slow.  Is that still the case?

   I haven't run xastir for quite some time, probably close to a year. 
Recently, I've been working on getting the station back on the air, and 
yesterday, I got around to working on packet again.
   I have a newly-built workstation in the shack, running Xubuntu 6.06.  I 
installed xastir 1.7.1 from the Universe repository, and configured an 
internet interface.
   For some reason, I can't get the online tigermaps to display.  I enabled 
them for zoom levels < 800, but all I get is a message 'Loading 
Online/Tigermap.geo' for a minute or so, but no map data appears.  I tried 
extending the timeout value to two  minutes, but that doesn't help.
   I enabled USRadar.geo in a layer above the tigermap, and I do get that 
data displayed.
   In the past, I've seen cases where tigermaps were available, but would 
occasionally timeout, and I would get a blank screen after zooming.  Is 
there some way to enable caching og the tigermap data, so that I can 
reduce the load on the server, and use the cached data instead?

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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