[Xastir] Maps

[Michael Gregory]

	Tom,

  I went to the xastir wiki and got directions for building from a tarball. I searched for the latest "stable release, and found version 2.0.4. I executed the instructions from the wiki by copying and pasting the terminal commands from the wiki to my terminal. FAIL!!!!

  The instructions are classic linux instructions, worthless frustrating and a waste of time and effort. The mint package installed version, (2.0.0), works flawlessly as soon as the user figures out that the information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the  map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long as they are of a limited set of vector graphics. It remains to be seen whether raster graphics will work because they require no only the raster graphics, (.png, .gif, .tif, .jpg…) files, but an accompanying text file with reference information so that the xastir app or its sub components can parse the placement of objects on the graphic background. I am having considerable difficulty finding raster files that come with the associated text file and have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to create them my self. Not difficult just not easy either. It seems that repositories of this kid of data are scarce.

73
KB3IYQ

Michael Gregory
michael.gregory at verizon.net



On 2013-10-21, at 11:46 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 07:45:34PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <michael.gregory at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
>> 
>>  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.
> 
> Which version is your package manager installing?  Which distro, and what
> does "Help->About" say about libraries compiled in.
> 
> Many distros are notorious for having ancient versions of xastir in their
> package management systems.
> 
> We also cannot be sure what compilation options were used when the package
> was built.  Remember that packages supplied by the distro are *not* created
> by the xastir project --- some volunteer generated the package for the 
> distro, and that person may not even be an xastir user.  
> 
> To be really sure you get what you want out of xastir, it might be necessary
> for you to build it from source with the options you really want.
> 
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