[Xastir] More Tiger maps questions

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Dale Seaburg <kg5lt at verizon.net> wrote:

> The first time I tried that, the background was already set for White.  That
> tells me that the shapefiles override (somehow) the default b/g color.  I
> then selected another b/g color , then went back to White.  That's when the
> b/g color changed to White indeed.  Perhaps this is normal.  But, at least I
> now get White, and it seems to stay that way between xastir sessions.

I wonder if there is some large (county, etc) polygon that is being
filled, and that's providing the "background" color you see?  Zoom/pan
out/away from the area you have a map for, and see what it looks like
at the border to verify this.

-Jason
kg4wsv