[Xastir] Tiger maps?

[Michael Lewis]

  On 9/5/2010 1:51 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Michael Lewis wrote:
>
>> Yeah I got Xastir running early this morning not sure if my last post 
>> posted here but I was trying to figure out how to update the shortcut 
>> under the linux start menu because it still points to the old version 
>> of Xastir if you click it..
>
> Which means you didn't remove the old package so you have two
> Xastir's on your system.
>
> Sorry, I can't help you with shortcuts as that's not my thing.  Read
> the Mint docs and they should tell you how to do it.  I'm sure it's
> an easy thing to do once you find the right sentence that tells you
> how.
>
>
>> Having said that the county are listed but would it be too hard to 
>> get town names? I think having roads would make the map a little too 
>> clutter?
>
> Zoom in.  You should get more labels as you zoom in.
>
>
>> weather overlay and other settings have stuck but not my voice 
>> warnings.. I forgot what I needed for that a speech program I think.
>
> Festival and Festival-devel.  Another of those "no" settings from
> configure that needs to be changed to a yes, then make/make install
> again after that.  Festival also needs to be running before you
> start that newly-compiled Xastir.
>
I zoomed in pretty close in and I still saw nothing..

NYC area

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9994/199z.png

As for the other Xastir not too sure how to remove it.. I might just 
leave it I'm just on linux because of Xastir so much code to just get 
something simple to run.

for the Festival that's the name of it I'd have to install it again 
later tonight.