[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4

[Alex Carver]

--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Andrew Errington <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Andrew Errington <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 8:22 PM
> On Tue, June 8, 2010 09:19, James
> Cameron wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:55:15PM -0500, Steve Rogers
> quoted:
> >
> >> Thank you for your inquiry. We have discontinued
> the
> >> Tiger Mapping Service as it has become outdated.
> >>
> >
> > So, lots of people relied on a legacy service and got
> bitten.  It shows
> > how valuable open data sources can be.  Choose
> your next source based on
> > how open it is, and what license it carries.
> 
> We should seriously look at OSM (www.osm.org) as a backend
> map source for
> Xastir.
> 
> I have mentioned it a couple of times here, and it
> surprises me that
> no-one seems to be in the least bit interested.
> 
> How about it?


The TIGER data is open for the US which is probably why OSM doesn't get much traction.  Only the online delivery system was discontinued.  Xastir can read the shapefiles directly, they just have to be downloaded and stored locally rather than generated on the fly from an online map generator.