[Xastir] Xastir with offline maps

[Mathew F]

I downloaded all 50 states and set them up. Once again it's not the same
performance as the OSM-Mapnik map. The Mapnik takes about 20 seconds to
load, the RI shapefiles take about 15 minutes to load on the Pi. The end
result is gross. Black background with roads, ponds and red "X"s all over.
I'm sure there is some conversion I have to do with the .dbf files. I tried
renaming them to .dbfawk, I did get some result from that but it made it
way worse and complained about too many rows or something. I will keep
digging.

I also need to find out how to get the GPS to update the clock. The
Raspberry Pi has no clock so every reboot the clock is Jan 1 1970 00:00.. I
could get a realtime clock module for $3 but I'm using that serial port for
the GPS. I also feel the GPS has more accurate time.

Still work in progress..

I will even buy a map if I need to. I just need it to look something like
the online Mapnik map and load correctly.

I was also wondering.. Will xastir keep the map focus on me? I noticed the
TrackMe button. Is that what that does?

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Kurt Savegnago wrote:
>
>  I simply moved the old TAMU tiger directory to /usr/local/share/xastir so
>> if I want to use them again, I just swap out the OSM shapefiles to
>> /usr/local/share/xastir and put the tiger maps back in to
>> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps.  Works like a charm.  Perhaps there might be
>> a way to do it from the menu-line without having the superimposition
>> switching from one offline mapset to another.  Seems like anything in /maps
>> is read together even if they are different mapsets.  I don't mind as the
>> manual swapping works fine.
>>
>
> Turn _off_ automaps.
>
> Put each map set in a separate directory under
> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/.  You can create any sort of tree you like
> beneath here, and as long as the user running Xastir can read the
> directories/files there, you're good to go.  I have lots of directories and
> subdirectories below my maps directory.
>
> Select the directory with the Map Chooser to switch between map sets.
>
>
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