[Xastir] Maps Offline?

[Kurt Savegnago]

For some weird reason when operating at a zoom level of 269 with the Cloudmade shapefiles I downloaded, I get blotches
of black which I think are streets and red "X's" obviously marking something all over the map.  When I zoom down, I see two lines for each street with all of the labeling correct.
I don't know if it is getting jumbled from my stock installation parameters.

Nonetheless, the TAMU 2006 maps are the most trouble free to install. Just take the zipfile, stick it into /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/GPS and unzip them. If I uncheck Auto Maps, Xastir will download whatever I have chosen
in Map Chooser and display it.  I sometimes have to tweak the levels but it works pretty good.  I recheck Auto Maps and the 2006 SE maps come back up.

For tracking rockets and R/C stuff, it's fine.  I understand the reason is technical for not being able to directly cache and use but that's O.K.
I still use it the most out of all the apps out there.



                                   Kurt KC9LDH

--- On Sun, 9/19/10, John Wilson <kc4lzn at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Wilson <kc4lzn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline?
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 12:50 PM
> Kurt,
> 
> I ran into the same question. Wanted to access maps
> offline. Curt brings
> up a very good reference about Cloudmade.
> 
> Here is the site.
> 
> http://cloudmade.com/
> 
> Go to the "Mappers" section and a menu will drop down and
> click on
> Download. You will see the different areas you can access,
> from around
> the globe. Your only limit is your disk size. All you need
> are the
> shapefiles that are in a compressed file. The maps as
> mentioned earlier
> aren't as "pretty" as the OSM maps but are very effective
> for what I
> believe you are looking for. Just follow the instructions
> on the wiki
> about where to put maps and you'll be in business.
> 
> 73 John
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 01:51 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > It's been mentioned on here several times.  Do a
> Google search for:
> > 
> >      Cloudmade OSM Shapefiles
> > 
> > Then go to that site and drill down to the country and
> state.
> > Download just the file that has "shapefile" in the
> title.  Expand
> > that in your Xastir maps directory somewhere and then
> reindex your
> > maps.  Vector OSM maps.  Not anywhere near
> as pretty as the OSM
> > raster tiles, but functional.
> > 
> > You'll need the dbfawk files that are in CVS Xastir to
> render them
> > properly.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Curt, WE7U. 
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