[Xastir] UI-view Maps not working

[Skyler F]

I don't know if it's just my luck, but I don't think IM worked for Geo on
it when I compiled xastir for centOS 5 about 4 months ago.

On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:51:13AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>> flavor,
> containing:
> >    Awesome!! That did it! graphicksmagick fixed the problem and the maps
> are
> >    showing.
>
> Hooray!
>
> Chalk up another black mark on the IM side.
>
> Years ago the developers talked about actually removing the IM support in
> Xastir and requiring GM instead.  At that time, there were still Linux
> distros that could not have both IM and GM installed simultaneously, and
> some users needed IM as a dependency for other programs.  So the discussion
> ended there.
>
> Perhaps it's time to have that discussion again.  IM is becoming a source
> of
> more problems with every release.  Chasing down those incompatibilities was
> a source of "ifdef bloat" for several years as we tried to keep compatible
> with multiple versions of IM.  And their latest releases all seem to
> require
> major changes in Xastir's raster rendering code to work --- and that
> ain't going to happen given the availability of developer time (unless
> we have some volunteers from the user community).
>
> >    On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Tom Russo <[1]russo at bogodyn.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >      On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:34:51AM -0600, we recorded a
> bogon-computron
> >      collision of the <[2]electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
> flavor, containing:
> >      >** ** Osm_tiled_mapnik loads and it shows that it downloads the
> tiles
> >      on the
> >      >** ** bottom left, but I don't see anything on the screen other
> than
> >      worldhi. Is
> >      >** ** there a specific location/zoom that I need to go to? I
> zoomed in
> >      a lot
> >      >** ** too, and there is no difference, worldhi is the only imagery
> that
> >      I see.
> >
> >      I'm guessing that you also got the "colorspace != RGB" error on the
> >      console
> >      even on this map.
> >
> >      I suspect you have a problem with your ImageMagick install.** See my
> >      last
> >      email about that.
> >
> >      The solution to this *might* be to rebuild ImageMagick with
> different
> >      options,
> >      but I don't know what those would be.** A better solution would be
> to
> >      install
> >      GraphicsMagick instead.
> >
> >      GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick that puts stability of API
> very
> >      much
> >      higher on the priority list than ImageMagick does --- IM tends to
> break
> >      things
> >      randomly and without any regard to backwards compatibility.** They
> are
> >      more
> >      bleeding edge as far as image processing algorithms and design, but
> for
> >      our purposes stability is more valuable.
> >      --
> >      Tom Russo** ** KM5VY** **SAR502** **DM64ux** ** ** ** **
> >      [3]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> >      Tijeras, NM** QRPL#1592 K2#398** SOC#236** ** ** **
> >      [4]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> >      **echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
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> >
> >    --
> >    Skyler Fennell
> >    [5]amsatnet.info
> >    KD**WHB
> >    [6]electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> >
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> --
> Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236
> http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
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Skyler Fennell
amsatnet.info
KDØWHB
electricity440 at gmail.com