[Xastir] Just a Thank You

[Brett Friermood]

Glad you are enjoying it.

I noticed you have plans of using it on a Beaglebone. I'm not sure if
you saw my email about getting it running on a Beaglebone Black this
fall, but I've been meaning to write a guide and have not gotten
around to doing it yet. In the meantime, if you get to that point and
run into some roadblocks I'll be happy to try to help.

Brett KQ9N


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:09 PM, W. T. Jones <wn3lif at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never posted a question on the list but I have been reading and
> reading as things have gone by.
>
> I have Xastir running on Ubuntu 12.04 and it has been great experience. It
> was built from the CVS repositories by following the instructions on the
> Wiki and mailing lists. It speaks, it chimes, and it runs and runs without
> any problems.
>
> The one thing that I wanted it to do was use Satellite images instead of
> the supplied maps and I wanted the overlays to work. That part was the
> hardest even with the excellent information that I found using Google. I
> finally got the maps from Mapquest to work but just couldn't get the Tiger
> Map 2009 overlays to work. I spent many hours since 1/1/2014 trying to get
> it the overlays to display. I have to say I learned a lot about how Xastir
> treats the maps in the maps directory and how the Map reindex works. It
> really is a a fantastic program.
>
> Last night after hacking away for so long I went back to the instructions
> about the Tiger Maps. And I read them again. Voile' and there was the
> problem. Seems that you have to unzip the maps before Xastir knows what to
> do with them. I did that and boing! There were the overlays. Not as pretty
> as I want them but now I can go figure out how to diddle with the dbfawk
> files.
>
> After that I'll move it to my beaglebone and see what trouble I can get
> into there.
>
> I just wanted to thank all of the people on the Xastir list. Both for
> asking questions and providing answers. They are stimulating and thought
> provoking and usually lead to a better understanding of how this great
> program works. And if I keep reading I find that my questions get answered.
> Thanks again to all of you.
>
> Regards,
>
> W.T.
>
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