[Xastir] UI-view Maps not working
Stanley Stanukinos
ka5iid at swbell.net
Thu May 7 11:18:37 EDT 2015
Tom, just a lowly user here. Thanks for all of your assistance as well as the other developers and power users.
You do not get enough thanks for all you do.
Stan
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> On May 7, 2015, at 10:07 AM, "russo at bogodyn.org" <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:03:13AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> 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.**
>
> For a while it was possible to use IM in Xastir if one made sure not to
> enable HRI support, but that was an impediment to compiling Xastir --- if
> you got it built then it generally worked.
>
> This "colorspace != RGB" issue has cropped up a few times recently, and I have
> no idea what new breakage from IM is responsible for it.
>
> We really need to deprecate IM support in Xastir. Chasing down their
> incompatibilities is a full-time job.
>
>> On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Tom Russo <[1]russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:51:13AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
>> collision of the <[2]electricity440 at gmail.com> 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][3]russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ** ** ** On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:34:51AM -0600, we recorded a
>> bogon-computron
>>> ** ** ** collision of the <[2][4]electricity440 at gmail.com> 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][5]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>>> ** ** ** Tijeras, NM** QRPL#1592 K2#398** SOC#236** ** ** **
>>> ** ** ** [4][6]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>>> ** ** ** **echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr
>> [a-m][n-z]
>>> ** ** ** [n-z][a-m]
>>>
>>> ** ** --
>>> ** ** Skyler Fennell
>>> ** ** [5][7]amsatnet.info
>>> ** ** KD**WHB
>>> ** ** [6][8]electricity440 at gmail.com
>>>
>>> References
>>>
>>> ** ** Visible links
>>> ** ** 1. mailto:[9]russo at bogodyn.org
>>> ** ** 2. mailto:[10]electricity440 at gmail.com
>>> ** ** 3. [11]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>>> ** ** 4. [12]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>>> ** ** 5. [13]http://amsatnet.info/
>>> ** ** 6. mailto:[14]electricity440 at gmail.com
>>
>> --
>> Tom Russo** ** KM5VY** **SAR502** **DM64ux** ** ** ** **
>> [15]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> Tijeras, NM** QRPL#1592 K2#398** SOC#236** ** ** **
>> [16]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>> **echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
>> [n-z][a-m]
>>
>> --
>> Skyler Fennell
>> [17]amsatnet.info
>> KD**WHB
>> [18]electricity440 at gmail.com
>>
>> References
>>
>> Visible links
>> 1. mailto:russo at bogodyn.org
>> 2. javascript:;
>> 3. javascript:;
>> 4. javascript:;
>> 5. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> 6. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>> 7. http://amsatnet.info/
>> 8. javascript:;
>> 9. javascript:;
>> 10. javascript:;
>> 11. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> 12. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>> 13. http://amsatnet.info/
>> 14. javascript:;
>> 15. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> 16. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>> 17. http://amsatnet.info/
>> 18. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com
>
> --
> 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] [n-z][a-m]
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