[Xastir] OSM tiles not displaying

[Eric H. Christensen]

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:39:57PM -0700, Tom Russo wrote:
> What does "Help->About" say, particularly about the version of ImageMagick
> or GraphicsMagick it's built with?

Yeah, the Fedora version is built with ImageMagick support.

> Once you've determined whether they used ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick, you
> will need to figure out whether you can display one of the OSM tiles you
> see have been downloaded by Xastir.  Here's how:
> 
>   - If your Xastir was compiled against ImageMagick, use the ImageMagick
>     "display" program to view it.  I.e.
>       display /users/russo/.xastir/OSMtiles/mapnik/11/432/824.png"

Yeah, this worked.

> If that displays fine, something is wrong with how Xastir is built with
> Magick on Fedora, or worse, it could be built against a version of ImageMagick 
> that is so new it doesn't actually work with Xastir (that happens a lot, 
> ImageMagick is very bleeding edge and often make changes that break 
> backward compatibility, which is why most Xastir developers advocate 
> GraphicsMagick instead).

*sigh* I wonder if that's what's happening here.  Looks like I'm running ImageMagick version 6.8.6.3.  I'll try to recompile with GraphicsMagick support and see if that fixes the problem.

Thanks!

73,
Eric W4OTN
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