[Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

[Tom Tessier]

Oops, sorry Curt, I see that your point is that you DIDN'T want the whole
country in one shot!! OK....I see someone fixed the mapping between position
coordinate and picking the map to get.

-Tom de VE4TRT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Tessier" <ttessier at trtdigital.ca>
To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps


> Hi Curt,
>
> Hmmm....I thought I wrote that routine a couple years ago and included it
in
> the sources. It used to grab the whole set. In fact, I found errors in
their
> maps designations on Elesmere Island.
>
> -Tom
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> To: "Tom Tessier" <ttessier at trtdigital.ca>
> Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps
>
>
> > 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!"
> >
> >
>
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