[Xastir] Speeding up map processing?

[James Ewen]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Andreas Weller wrote:
>> Another thing I thought about:
>> Can I convert the Openstreetmaps data to a vector file format usable
>> with Xastir?
>
> I don't know what vector format they're in now.  If you can find
> something to convert them to ESRI Shapefile format, it's likely they
> can be used in Xastir.  You'll need to assure the vertices are in
> lat/long format and preferably WGS84 or NAD83 datum, plus you'll
> more than likely need to create your own dbfawk file to get them
> displayed and colored as you prefer.

You can get the OSM tiles as raster images, but you would have to
create .geo files for each tile.

James
VE6SRV