[Xastir] Xastir with offline maps

[Mathew F]

I will like to add that my Linux/BSD skills are very high. I have been
using Linux since BETA days and was introduced to FreeBSD around version
1.3.1. I work full time as a internet security engineer as well.

Here is my Xastir config:

xastir 2.0.0 has been configured to use the following
options and external libraries:

MINIMUM OPTIONS:
  ShapeLib (Vector maps) ................. : yes

RECOMMENDED OPTIONS:
  GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) : yes (GraphicsMagick)
  pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : yes
  dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : yes
  rtree indexing (Shapefile speedups) .... : yes
  map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : no
  internet map retrieval ................. : yes (libcurl)

FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:
  AX25 (Linux Kernel I/O Drivers) ........ : yes
  libproj (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : yes
  GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : yes
  Festival (Text-to-speech) .............. : yes
  GDAL/OGR (Obtuse map formats) .......... : yes
  GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) ....... : yes

DEVELOPER OPTIONS:
  ErrorPopups (Old Method) ............... : no
  libgc (Debug memory usage) ............. : no
  profiling (Debug code efficiency) ...... : no
  Linux Standard Base (LSB) .............. : yes
  Spatial database support ............... : yes
  Spatial database Postgresql/Postgis .... : no
  MySQL .................................. : yes
  MySQL Spatial database support ......... : yes


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Tom Russo wrote:
>
>  One of the reasons your rendering is so slow (other than running on a slow
>> machine) is probably that without dbfawk, it is likely that all the lines
>> in
>> all the files are being drawn at all zoom levels, and none skipped over.
>>
>
> Also:  You don't need all of the files selected.  Selecting all of the
> ones in a set slows you down and clutters your screen.  You can select
> individual ones for an area and see which ones contribute the pieces you
> wish to your display, then delete or unselect the ones that you're not
> interested in.  That will speed it up quite a bit too (besides the hints
> that Tom already gave you).
>
>
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