[Xastir] New FC7 install troubles with both Release and Stable CVS

[Stephen Peters]

Hi Tate and Curt,

I have Xastir working without rtree currently.  It does fine except  
it does take a little while on some redraws.

I tried updating to the developer's codebase to see if it was  
something unusual in the intermediate releases.  I also deleted the  
files in the rtree directory and having cvs replace them.  Alas,  
nothing has quite worked to fix the rtree problem.  I could try  
wiping the whole Xastir src directory and updating that.  It  
shouldn't work, but who knows?

I've also re-ran the Fedora system updater to see if anything obvious  
was old or out of date.

Now I did install Shapelib, but it is also included in the Xastir  
install now?  Could that be a problem - i.e. should I try removing  
Shapelib?

Two other things I've noticed on unrelated topics:
1) There's a ton of .geo radar files out there that simply don't work  
because they point to a nonexistent web location at NOAA/NWS.  I  
guess NOAA updated their system a while ago (I've been out of aprs  
for a couple of years.)  I was able to relocate the correct file and  
fix the geo file for my area.  The Xastir wiki and readme.maps still  
points to these download locations with the outdated .geo's.

2) My day job involves working with GIS, so I was using ArcGIS to  
export a geotiff.  I am using PAMAP data, which is beautiful  
georeferenced RGB color tif files with 1-2 foot resolution.  I sure  
would like one in color, but ArcGIS can only export 24 Bit True  
color, 8 Bit Palette, or 8 Bit grayscale.  Xastir can't interpret the  
24 bit color, and the 8 bit palette must create a custom CLUT that  
Xastir doesn't interpret.  In 8 bit palette mode, the data exists,  
comes through georeferenced perfectly, as I can see the patterns, but  
the colors are seemingly randomly chosen and assigned.

Thanks again guys for making this great software!  It really is awesome!

-Steve



On Jun 10, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Tate Belden wrote:

> Curt Mills wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Tate Belden wrote:
>>> Do you have the X11-devel packages installed?
>>> Do you have the rtree-devel package installed?
>> Good guess on rtree, but all the rtree code is inside Xastir
>> sources, so there are no extra packages to download.  Same case with
>> the the Shapefile code these days.
>
> Thanks, that's what it was - a guess.
>
> Steve, you got it working yet?
>