[Xastir] Xastir with offline maps

[Mathew F]

I downloaded the 50 states but only had RI selected. I'm using a $25
Raspberry Pi. 700MHz ARM and 256Mb ram. That's equal to about a Pentium 1,
233MHz when compared to i386/x86. Your Atom is about 8-10 times faster than
this processor.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Mathew F <n1mjf at n1mjf.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I have Maryland and Virginia, so I tried just selecting Maryland and
> de-selecting the online-mapnick and the map loaded in 27 seconds on an
> Intel Atom based computer (Acer Revo).  Did you have all 50 states
> selected?  I think it will load everything in that case even if you
> are only looking at Rhode Island.
>
> > The end
> > result is gross. Black background with roads, ponds and red "X"s all
> over.
>
> Hmm, I don't understand the black background.  I get a grey
> background.  A screenshot is here:
> http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/xastir-screenshot1-osm-shapefile.png
> The map is definitely not as nice as the mapnik rendering, but it's
> functional.
>
> If I zoom in much further, I get littered with text labeling what look
> like POI's, and a red X precedes the text.  It looks like a dbfawk
> tweak is in order for high zoom levels.
>
> Regards,
> Lee - K5DAT
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