[Xastir] How do I use shapefile maps?

[Tom Hayward]

Have you checked file ownership and permissions?

ls -l
on your map folder will tell a lot.

Tom KD7LXL

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:06 AM, John Dvoracek <ke5c at hot.rr.com> wrote:
> I am having a lot of issues trying to get xastir running under Fedora 9
> on a Thinkpad where xastir ran fine under Fedora 7.  I'm also trying to
> have this working by Saturday morning for an event.  I've given up on
> getting online maps working since there seems to be some bug with those
> as also experienced by others.  Instead I downloaded shapefile maps for
> one Texas county, but xastir does not seem to recognize them.  Hopefully
> I am just installing them incorrectly.  On startup xastir says it
> supports shapefile maps:
>
> [root at T23 ~]# xastir
> Built-in map types:
>      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>       map   APRSdos Maps
>       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
> Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats
> allowed)
>       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
>       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
>       tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
>       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
> festival_client: connect to server failed
> SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival
> Indexing maps...
> Finished indexing maps
> *** Reading WX Alert log files
> *** Done with WX Alert log files
>
> I downloaded the Texas county shapefile maps from Texas A&M as
> referenced in the xastir map wiki, then extracted and installed the
> county of interest in my map directory as shown in this recursive
> directory listing:
>
> [root at T23 maps]# ls -R
> .:
> GPS  Online  TX_Polygons  TX_Polylines  worldhi.map
>
> ./GPS:
> placeholder
>
> ./Online:
> CanadaTopo250k.geo  terraserver-reflectivity.geo  tigermap.geo
> WMSRadar.geo
> CanadaTopo50k.geo   terraserver-topo.geo          TXRadar.geo
> terraserver.geo     terraserver-urban.geo         USRadar.geo
>
> ./TX_Polygons:
> Bell_County.dbf  Bell_County.shp  Bell_County.shx
>
> ./TX_Polylines:
> Bell_County.dbf  Bell_County.prj  Bell_County.shp  Bell_County.shx
>
> TX_Polyogns and TXPolylines show up as directories in the map chooser
> dialog, but none of the maps within those directories show up.  Do I
> have to do something else to use shapefiles?  Thanks for any help at
> this late moment.
>
> 73 -- John
>
>
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