[Xastir] Summary of New Capability

[Keith Kaiser]

Well yes your Saturday instructions were pretty good and I used them  
for the most part to try one county. The problem is I'm far more  
likely to download an entire state because my primary Xastir usage is  
for high altitude balloon tracking. So for example I downloaded the  
entire state(s) of Kansas and Missouri, I put them in /usr/local/share/ 
xastir/maps/tiger2008/kansas  and of course missouri.
Do I now need to go into each and every county within each state and  
run the vi edit (vi works fine in Mac btw)? Or do I just need to run  
it once at the tiger2008 level? I'm learning more and more about the  
workings of Unix but I have a ways to go so I don't know where exactly  
to do this edit.

  vi ~/.xastir/config/map_index.sys
    :g/tabblock/s/01000/00995/
    :g/pointlm/s/01000/00996/
    :g/arealm/s/01000/00997/
    :wq

Ultimately I'd like to see road names down to the smallest road at a  
very low zoom level and only major roads as I zoom out. Chasing a  
balloon starts out very wide and narrows down as we get closer and  
closer to touchdown.

And please believe me when I say how much I and I'm sure other  
neophyte Unix users appreciate the time and information you pass our  
way in this and other forums.

On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> The discussion has been long and to say the least, very confusing.  
>> Any chance we can get someone to walk us through a set of  
>> instructions of how to actually see maps working with this new  
>> configuration.
>
> The summary I sent out saturday wasn't adequate?
>
> It didn't talk about downloading/exploding the map files, but
> there's nothing special about that part.  No renaming needed.  Snag
> them, unzip them, remove the zip files once you're sure you
> succeeded.
>
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73's
Keith Kaiser
wa0tjt at gmail.com