[Xastir] Open Streets Maps help

[terrylj2 at embarqmail.com]

Hello,

I've been following the conversation and once I unzip the Cloudmade files can I just move them into the maps folder under xastir and will they show up in the map chooser? I'm running Lucid in 64 bit mode. 

KA1LQE - John
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:50:25 
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Subject: Re: [Xastir] Open Streets Maps help

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Jacob Tennant wrote:

> I see the OSM maps listed but there is no information in the
> properties area for them and I am unfamiliar with what to set the
> values in the properties.
>
> I have not been able to get the maps to work on the Fedora laptop
> either.
>
> I am hoping to get the maps saved for use when not on the
> internet.

If vector maps are good enough for you (not as nicely drawn, but the
same info is there), then download the "Cloudmade OSM Shapefiles"
(Google search for that) for the areas of interest and use them
directly.

For getting the raster maps going:  Tell us what the startup message
from Xastir says (start it from an Xterm or similar terminal
window), and tell us what the Help->About->Libraries used: line says
inside Xastir itself.  Most likely you're missing a library that
Xastir depends on.  Maybe Jeremy can jump in with an idea or two as
well.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the OSM raster maps.  They
look very nice, and we have several choice and layering schemes to
choose from too.

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