[Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Tom Tessier wrote:

> I stopped relying on the on-line Toporama site as an on-demand online
> reference and downloaded the maps I needed to my local drive. Natural
> Resources Canada makes the maps available on the basis that they expect
> users to download them manually rather than as repeated downloads as online
> references like a Google Map or MapQuest reference. Toporama are bitmap
> scans of the maps you can buy in hardcopy, which is why they are so big. I
> have found that NRCan makes changes to their server structures from time to
> time, and that adds to the confusion.

Hi Tom, long time no hear...

If we had a download script for Xastir that didn't download the
entire country in one shot, it might be more useful to people.
Perhaps someone should work on that.  Disk space and download speed
can be a limiting factor for people.

--
Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
"Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"