[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:35 AM, William McKeehan
<mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> wrote:
> This is exactly the information that I was looking for, thanks!
>
> One thing that I notice is that when I am at a zoom level that is out pretty
> far, like 768 or so, it takes a long time for Xastir to run through all of the
> maps. Much of the map data is repressed by the dbfawk files, but Xastir still
> has to process it.

At zoom level 128 I switch to maps from NationalAtlas.gov and NOAA
(nat'l atlas road files are fubar).  This way I get decent detail
nationwide, and only download TIGER shapefiles for the areas where I
need street level detail.

-Jason
kg4wsv