[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Lee Bengston]

On 4/20/09, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> Getting back to the original announcement, wouldn't it be possible for
>> those who don't want to recompile to just add the new dbfawk files to
>> their /usr/local/share/xastir/config directory, download the maps,
>> re-index, and edit their map_index.sys file?
>
> Yes.  You have to remember that those closest to the code tend to
> work out of CVS, so a "cvs update" is all any of them need to do to
> snag the latest code and config files...
>
> Sorry about that.  I should have spelled out that option for people.
>
> The files would be available at:
>
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir
>
> More->Code->CVS Browse->xastir->config
>
> Click on "Age" and you'll sort the files by age, then pick the
> dbfawk's that are newish.  Looks like there are eight of them.
> Click on the rev number instead of the filename (filename just gets
> you the log entries), then there's a download option from there.

Thanks, I always use CVS myself, but I think there is a fair number of
people either using binaries or downloading source tarballs that would
welcome the capability to just grab the new dbfawk files and run with
them.

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX