[Xastir] Question Map - Enable Map Grid

William McKeehan mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net
Thu Jan 10 12:24:34 EST 2008


I found that in the help file too, but it does not appear to work that
way...and it still baffles me as to why I can't make it show the grids at
"normal" intervals.

Thanks for the attempt at an answer.
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
http://mckeehan.homeip.net

On Thu, January 10, 2008 12:20 pm, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, William McKeehan wrote:
>
>> Can you elaborate a bit more on that? Is there any way to make it show grids
>> at specific (i.e., normal) intervals?
>
> I didn't write that code, but found this in the help-English.dat
> file:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Enable Map Grid
> When enabled, this option will display a grid on the map.   If the
> coordinate system is UTM a UTM grid will be displayed.  If the
> coordinate system is latitude/longitude then a latitude and
> longitude grid will be displayed.  As you zoom in the grid switches
> to a finer resolution.  The spacing of the latitude and longitude
> grid may be manually adjusted with the "+" and "-" keys.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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