[Xastir] Maps Offline?

[Lee Bengston]

ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2009/

If you use an FTP client like CuteFTP or gftp, you can copy the entire
state folder.

Lee - K5DAT


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Kurt Savegnago <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Ahhhhhhh,
>
>  How does one download the whole state and not county by county.
> Using a batchfile utility I find a pita.  I like clicking on a state and
> getting all the files at once.  Can't beat getting something like
> ILL.zip and unzipping it.:-)
>
>                                        Kurt KC9LDH
>
>
> --- On Tue, 9/21/10, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline?
>> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 4:39 PM
>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Kurt Savegnago
>> wrote:
>>
>> >  Yeah, I meant the 2006 Tiger maps that were made
>> available.
>> > I unzipped them to the ~/maps/GPS directory.
>>
>> Tiger 2009 too new for you?  We have dbfawk files in
>> Xastir-1.99
>> for the 2009 Tiger/Line files.
>>
>>   http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2009/tgrshp2009.html
>>
>> Note also that you can create directories under the
>> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/ directory at will...
>> You just need to
>> make them readable by a normal user.  Same for the map
>> files
>> themselves.
>>
>> -- Curt, WE7U.
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