[Xastir] Xastir on Mac . . . download, unzip, store maps

[Peter Gamache]

You need bunzip2, as .bz2 is a different compression scheme.  According to a
quick google search ("bunzip2 macos x"), it seems like it may be included in
the standard installation of MacOS.  At a terminal window, you'll have to
decompress the archive with "bunzip2 wisconsin.osm.bz2", which will strip
the .bz2 extension and leave you a larger (and perhaps useful) file.

FMI:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/bunzip2.1.html

Regards,
-PG

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:45:19AM -0600, T Wegner wrote:
> Not having a lot of luck here, probably because I don't' understand Unix
>
> I would like to download some maps
>
> an example is
>
> wisconsin.osm.bz2
>
> found here
>
> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north_america/united_states/wisconsin#downloads_breadcrumbs
>
> i used my regular gui to download it to my home directory
>
> then used x11 to move it to the /usr/local/share/xastir/maps directory
>
> tried to unzip it, but got an error message, which i guess makes sense  
> as it's not a .zip file
>
>
> 1) am i even remotely close to doing this correctly?
>
> 2) this seemed like the map i would most likely want - does anyone have 
> any idea if it would be a good map to use for navigating around  
> wisconsin or would the wisconsinshapefiels.zip be a better choice. I  
> will be perusing the site to try and find info about the different maps. 
> there is quite a difference in file size.
>
> tnx
> 73
> tom
>
>
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