[Xastir] Maps

[Michael Gregory]

  I removed Xastir completely. Both by telling my package manager to removeit, and then by manually going to all of the directory locations ~/... and user share…. and manually deleting all of the files. I them re-installed it by having the package manager re-install.
I then went to the web and looked up every version of a .map file I could find, and installed them in the user/share/xaster/map directory.

 I havelots of vector line drawigs, but no raster maps.
They are sucky for quality, but at least they work. I have no Raster maps. I would love to get some and I have looked at some on line, but I am having troubole getting the descriptor files to go with them the ones with the upper left/north west and lower right/ south east longetude and lattitude data as well as the pixel count.

So for now It works but it sucks. I have not given up. eventually I will get it to work right in spite of the lack of support fom the community rather than because of it.

  Thanks for asking.

73
KB3IYQ

Michael Gregory
michael.gregory at verizon.net



On 2013-10-21, at 5:06 PM, "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Michael Gregory wrote:
> 
>> I just set up linux mint 15 and downloaded Xastir 2.0. When I enable Auto maps and disable "Auto Map - Disable Raster Map" The program goes to the web and downloads the map for my area,?over and over and over and?..
>> 
>> It acts as though it is indexing and reading from one file location, and storing the maps somewhere else.
>> 
>> The software will display the correct map, but keeps downloading it repeatedly.
>> 
>> How can I get it to index and store properly and then use the local map?
> 
> I didn't see anyone else respond yet.  Thanks for going through the trouble to get on the list.  Getting answers from now on should be easier 'cuz you have access to the hundreds of subscribers here to ask questions of.
> 
> I'm curious whether you may have had an earlier Xastir installed before you installed 2.0.  There was a change a while back to where some things were stored.
> 
> If you haven't done much configuration since the install, you might consider stopping Xastir, then deleting the ~/.xastir directory completely.  Start Xastir up again and it will re-create it for you.  Of course all of your settings will be gone.  See if that fixes your map download problem though.  Here are the commands:
> 
>    Stop Xastir
>    cd
>    rm -rf .xastir
>    Start Xastir up again
> 
> A slightly less drastic measure (keeping a backup of your configs) would be to do this:
> 
>    Stop Xastir
>    cd
>    mv .xastir .xastir.save
>    Start Xastir up again
> 
> This will do the same as previously described but you can go look at ~/.xastir.save/config/xastir.cnf to see what your previous settings were.  You can also delete the new directory and rename the save directory back to the original if you wish.  Like this:
> 
>    Stop Xastir
>    cd
>    rm -rf .xastir
>    mv .xastir.save .xastir
>    Start Xastir up again
> 
> Please try one of the first two sets of commands and let us know if it fixes your problem.
> 
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