[Xastir] Added to Git: U.S. Tiger WMS Maps

[Tom Henderson]

Looks great! However, I can't get the borders to overlay any other map. 
The transparency doesn't seem to be working.

Tom Henderson

On 08/24/2018 09:45 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
> I added these files to Git this week:
>
>     USTigermap.geo
>     USTigermapBorders.geo
>
> Remember the Tigermap server we used to have? This is the new equivalent.
>
> They are useful for U.S.-based mapping and come from U.S. Census 
> Bureau's data. I made the background of the 2nd one transparent so it 
> will overlay the first and give you county/state borders. Since they 
> come from two different servers I couldn't get borders on the first 
> one alone. These should work great with map-caching as well.
>
> They'll install into /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/
>
> I'm in the middle of removing the code for the old Tigermap server 
> (now defunct) and for Tiger/Line files (they switched to ESRI 
> Shapefile format now). Unfortunately Tiger/Line and SDTS are both in 
> the GDAL section of code and I can't get SDTS files to work anymore. 
> Once I sort that out I'll commit those changes and Xastir will be a 
> bit leaner.
>