[Xastir] tamu down Tiger2006SE alternatives?

[Kurt Freiberger]

I let Gerry know that the FTP server had thrown up.  Apparently there's an LDAP problem that he will look into.  Sometimes sysadmins do nothing but play metaphysical Whack-A-Mole(tm).

73/Kurt

On 9,Feb 2010, at 5:47 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Kurt Savegnago wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to cache the online Tiger maps for use offline or
>> is that not possible?
> 
> The online Tigermap server uses old map data, but I wouldn't
> recommend caching raster maps when vector maps were available
> anyway.  The don't scale well plus they take up inordinate amounts
> of space.
> 
> If you're after street maps, download the latest Tiger Shapefile
> data available.  You'll need to get dbfawk compiled into Xastir and
> make sure you find/download/create the dbfawk files that apply to
> your Tiger data version.  There was some discussion about this a
> while back so hopefully you can find dbfawk files that apply without
> having to create them from scratch.
> 
> If you run into trouble, ask on this list.
> 
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