[Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

[Gerry Creager]

I'll see if there's .geo's on www2.findu.com... There are and the cgi is 
there, too.  Try pointing it toward www2.findu.com/findu2.tamu.edu 
(165.91.140.33) and see if you like the result.

gerry

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Curt Mills wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff Brower wrote:
>>
>>> I have the same problem on my Mac and on a Kubuntu build. Like you, it has
>>> been that way for a few weeks.  Perhaps the path has changed?
>> As I recall we do something funny for these particular maps.  I
>> think we requests the .geo from findu.com, then go fetch the map.
>> Something like that.  Anyway, I suspect it might be a findu.com
>> issue.  I need to look at our code to see exactly what we do.
> 
> In  map_geo.c I found this:
> 
>   // A test URL that works, just to get things going.  This URL
>   // requests 1:50k scale maps ("set=50").
>   //xastir_snprintf(fileimg, sizeof(fileimg),
>   //    "\"http://mm.aprs.net/toporama.cgi?set=50|lat=44.59333|lon=-75.72933|width=800|height=600|zoom=1\"");
> 
> It appears we try to snag the .geo file from findu.com, then add the
> "imagesize" tag to the file, then we pass that .geo file off to our
> normal processing which fetches the map image itself.
> 
> I'm trying to get the .geo file via wget and it's failing.  It
> resolved the domain name to 64.58.207.2 but then doesn't connect
> with http.  A ping to that address doesn't work either.
> 
> Steve:  Has the domain name changed or has this particular CGI
> script gone by the wayside?  Perhaps we could borrow the algorithm
> and code up our own .geo files for toporama?
> 

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