[Xastir] Slow raster map render

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is Xastir slow to render raster maps? I'm curious what is actually
> happening behind the scenes. It appears that Xastir is re-projecting
> the raster maps, requiring an expensive render. Why not just
> re-project the APRS stations and any shapefile overlay to match the
> raster tiles? Wouldn't this be much faster?

If there were only 2 choices (as your question sort of implies), I'm
pretty sure the developers would have done it that way.

Since xastir supports so many different maps (formats, projections,
yada yada yada), each one gets handled on the fly.

Now, some sort of "no monkeying required" format might be nice, along
with some tools to re-format (pre-render?) your favorite maps...

-Jason
kg4wsv