[Xastir] Caching maps?

Earl Needham via Kubuntu needhame1 at plateautel.net
Sun Jun 3 17:02:40 EDT 2007


On Sunday 03 June 2007 13:53:00 James Jolin wrote:
> Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
> > 	OK, maybe I'm slow, but how do I get Xastir to cache maps so a new map
> > doesn't need to be downloaded every time I zoom in and than back out to a
> > former "zoom level"?  In other words, if I'm looking at the US Weather
> > map and zoom in on a particular area, and then zoom back out, Xastir is
> > downloading a new version of the map when the old one would do fine --
> > it's only a minute or two old.
> >
> > 	Xastir version is 1.8.4.
> >
> > 	Thanks,
> > 	Earl
>
> Earl,
> Do you have the Berkley db files installed and did you configure with
> map caching?
> Jim

	Ah -- I'm pretty new in treh Kubuntu world, so I simply did the binary 
install.  I don't think it gave me any options, it just installed, almost 
like a Windows app.  I'll have to take a look at what I can do differently.

	7 3
	Earl
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KD5XB -- Earl Needham
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running Kubuntu 7.04



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