[Xastir] (no subject)

[Steve Rogers]

I recompiled a new xastir and received the error on cloudmade 5, but no errors on tiled mapnik and osmrender. So Xastir is working fine on my machine. Steve

> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:56:54 -0500
> From: kd5mkv at hotmail.com
> To: russo at bogodyn.org; xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] (no subject)
> 
> On 11/05/2011 05:52 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
>      I  ran cloudmade 5 sometime ago, have since discontinue running it. 
> Have removed it from map chooser and properties, it tries to load and 
> after 5 minutes of lagging in the left bottom window, the tiled 
> osmrender will finally load with the following errors. I installed 
> html2ps from synaptic and no maps,
> just lines with number 4, Osmrender still works after removal of 
> html2ps, errors still there but xastir is working. thanks steve kd5mkv
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:20:22PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the<kd5mkv at hotmail.com>  flavor, containing:
> >> I used the cvs update this week and started recieveing errors in terminal. I using Ubuntu 10.4 i386 on a hp 2250 minitower.
> >>
> >> execvp failed, errno = 2 (No such file or directory)
> >> Magick: "html2ps" "-U" "-o" "/tmp/gm1un72c" "/home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/232/433.png".
> >> Magick: Delegate failed ("html2ps" -U -o "%o" "%i").
> >> Removing /home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/232/433.png
> >> execvp failed, errno = 2 (No such file or directory)
> >> Magick: "html2ps" "-U" "-o" "/tmp/gmJmV244" "/home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/233/433.png".
> >> Magick: Delegate failed ("html2ps" -U -o "%o" "%i").
> >> Removing /home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/233/433.png
> > Seeing these "html2ps" messages means that the on-line map server you're
> > using has returned an error.
> >
> > Here's what happens.
> >
> > Xastir issues an HTML request to the map server for a PNG file.  It ASSUMES
> > that it gets a PNG file back, and sends it off to ImageMagick for processing.
> >
> > But if the server returns an error, it returns HTML text (usually).
> > ImageMagick tries to convert the HTML to an image, which requires a script
> > called "html2ps" that you clearly don't have installed, so ImageMagick
> > is complaining.
> >
> > But even if you did install html2ps, what you'd wind up with is an HTML error
> > message in your Xastir window instead of a map.  And it may well be that the
> > message is illegible (I had that happen once to the weather radar overlay,
> > and was wondering why there was a hash of junk in one corner of my map window,
> > and finally figured out that it was poorly rendered, distorted text).
> >
> > So there are two problems
> >    1) The map server you're using is returning an error
> >    2) You don't have the html2ps converter installed
> >    3) Xastir doesn't notice that it got an HTML file instead of the PNG it
> >       assumes its gotten
> >    4) I can't count.
> >
> >
> > Your best bet to solve the issue is to switch to a different online map
> > choice.
> >
> > But since you mention "cloudmade_5" it looks like you're trying to use one of
> > the OSM un-tiled map options.  You might like the tiled versions better
> > anyway.  Try OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo or OSM_tiled_osmarender.geo.
> >
> > The tiled versions run much faster once they've downloaded a few batches of
> > tiles, because they're not trying to load the full screen image for every
> > view.  They download tiles that cover part of your view, so when you pan the
> > work it's done previously is not all wasted --- as you pan, it only has to
> > download new tiles for the areas that got moved into view, and can reuse the
> > tiles that were in your previous view.
> >
> >> Maps load but sometimes lags on a map "loading online/osm cloudmade 5.geo  which I have chosen in map chooser!
> >> Then it loads osmrender map I have selected in map chooser. I have rerun the apt-get for imaginemagik and graphicmagik are the latest.
> >> Is okay? It is working properly? thanks Steve kd5mkv
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