[Xastir] Summary of New Capability

[Lee Bengston]

On 4/20/09, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

You only have to edit one file, which is located in
~/.xastir/config a.k.a. /home/yourusername/.xastir/config.
The .xastir directory is hidden, so it won't necessarily be
seen in a file browser without enabling viewing hidden
files - not sure what is normally used in a Mac for that.
The file to be edited is named map_index.sys.

Before editing, you have to make sure the maps have
been extracted and are located in the /usr/local/share/xastir/maps
directory in your choice of arrangement AND that you have
launched Xastir and re-indexed the maps.  Then shut down
Xastir and edit the index file with vi (or you can use the perl
script that I posted previously that will edit the file).

If you do the above and then add more Tiger 2008 maps later,
you will have to re-index, shut down Xastir, and edit the file
again in order to get the new maps to look right.

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX