[Xastir] Tutorial?

[Mike M]

root at raspberrypi:/home/pi# cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
ID=raspbian

root at raspberrypi:/home/pi# cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.1.7-v7+ (dc4 at dc4-XPS13-9333) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140303
(prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1+bzr2650 - Linaro GCC 2014.03) )
#817 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 19 15:32:00 BST 2015




root at raspberrypi:/home/pi# xastir


Built-in map types:
      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
       pop   USGS GNIS Datapoints w/population
       map   APRSdos Maps
       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps

Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats
allowed)
       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
       geo   URL (OpenStreetMaps via libcurl library
                  Copyright OpenStreetMap and contributors, CC-BY-SA)
       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
       tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
       tab   MapInfo TAB
       mid   MapInfo MID
       mif   MapInfo MIF
       ddf   Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
       rt1   US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
       s57   International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57
       dgn   MicroStation DGN

*** Reading WX Alert log files
*** Done with WX Alert log files


Help indicates xastir 2.0.0
Libraries used: AX25 GraphicsMagick libProj GeoTiff GDAL/OGR ShapeLib PCRE
Dbfawk map_caching rtree libcurl


This rasbian distro came from a premade card image from here
http://f6bvp.free.fr/AX25_BBS_Node_RaspBerry_Pi_install.html

I finally found the maps in /usr/share/xastir/maps

Here I thought getting the bluetooth TNC working was going to be the hard
part.. hahah. That part actually works.

Thanks for the help!

-Mike
KF7MBK




On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:55 PM, David Flood <davidf4 at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Mike M
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 5:49 PM
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> 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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