[Xastir] Map question

[Earl Needham]

At 14:05 3/4/2008, Earl Needham wrote:

>         I'm downloading some maps from ftp://aprs.tamu.edu and have 
> a question.  Usually I use the online Tiger maps, and they work 
> great for scrolling as I drive along.  Will downloaded maps do the same thing?

         Well, I got with Steve Friis, WM5Z tonight, and he gave me 
three DVDs with all those maps on them.  They load kinda slow, don't 
they?  It appears they are loading counties, shapefiles, and some 
kind of "poly" file for every county that appears in your 
screen.  That's a lot of data, some of those maps are really big.  I 
may have to figure something else out for these maps.

         Thanks, Steve!

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         Earl

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