[Xastir] Tutorial?

[David Flood]

Mike,

Yup, the MAPS HOWTO probably needs a rewrite...perhaps one of these days
when I can exercise Amateur Time Units while at my real job if someone else
doesn't get there first..

Let's start with the simplest possible cause...missing helper apps...

What OS or Distribution of Linux (and version #) are you using?

Are you using a version of Xastir supplied by that Distribution or did you
compile from CVS?

When Xastir starts up, it reports what map formats it knows how to handle.
If you're using an icon to launch Xastir, you can get a similar but less
informative list from Help / About on the "libraries used" line...

Help / About will also give you the version number of Xastir..


That info will help tell us if it has the helpers to handle other map
formats including your existing map...

Dave
KD7MYC


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[mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Mike M
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 5:49 PM
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Subject: [Xastir] Tutorial?

I'm about ready to jump off a bridge.  I get ham radio is all about
learning, but this whole map deal makes me want to give up the hobby.

I am about at hour 5 of playing around with xastir and still have nothing
but the default (and useless) world map.  None of the built in online maps
work.

After lots of hair pulling I find out that the OSM map server has long since
disappeared.  2 hours wasted trying to figure out why it was saying it was
loading tiles but no tiles ever ended up in the cache.

I have an osm map file I use with aprsdroid of the whole US.  I thought I
could use this file.  45 minutes googling and searching the file system to
figure out where to put it (every site I went to told me something
different, and where it actually was wasn't any of them), dumped the .map
file in there, reindexed and the map does not appear in the list.  The
folder I put it in does, but not the map.  Does xastir not support these
types of files?

Is there an up to date tutorial on how to get maps working?

Thanks
-Mike
KF7MBK
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