[Xastir] Maps?

[Curt Mills]

Here's one place it appears you can get OSM Shapefile extracts:

    http://download.geofabrik.de/

Again, you most likely will have to create dbfawk files to go with them.
It's not terribly difficult.


On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm currently using online maps: "Online/OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo"
>
> You may have to hunt for an OSM extract in Shapefile format. I used to use
> the "cloudmade" extracts and still have the ones for WA on this computer I
> think.
>
> You should be able to get quite a few different ones that use ESRI
> Shapefile format working in Xastir, including Tigermap Shapefile maps. We
> made the Tigermap Shapefiles work a few years ago, and one of my buddies
> has been asking about getting the latest ones working... It's not that much
> work to get new ones integrated in. It's usually just writing some more
> "dbfawk" files to go with them.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:47 PM, David D. Clark <david at clarknm.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So I just did a pull from git (7/14 1346h MDT), recompiled, et voila --
>> weather polygons!
>>
>> On 07/14/2016 01:20 PM, David D. Clark wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everybody,
>>>
>>> I am returning to using xastir after a fairly long period of not using
>>> it. I have it compiled and running with everything except GDAL support.
>>>
>>> I have tried to get some offline maps but most of the links I have found
>>> seem to be dead. Could somebody please point me to a source of something
>>> like openstreetmaps for use with xastir?
>>>
>>> I have also noticed that weather alerts don't quite match what I see on
>>> wundermap.com. I have connected to firenet to get the information. What
>>> I am most critically missing is red flag warning. I am also not seeing any
>>> weather polygons. From my searches I understand that there has been a lot
>>> of changes to the data sources for these things since I last used xastir.
>>> Could somebody please comment on what weather features the current version
>>> of xastir is and is not capable of?
>>>
>>> Tnx es 73
>>> Dave KJ5KG
>>>
>>>
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