[Xastir] Archaic default map

[Chip Griffin]

- No
- No
- No, but I am fond of the idea of a new default map.

About the only reason I could see for this being a challenge to me would be a possible minimal system on a Raspberry Pi (or similar one board style computer) where the space for all the requirements might be important. But given prices of RAM/SD Cards and the small computers, I’m not concerned much at all.

--Chip/N1MIE

> On Jul 28, 2019, at 21:15, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> So here's the survey:
> 
>  - If Xastir stopped letting you turn off shapefile support, and required
>    it just like we require Motif and X11, would you be beside yourself with
>    rage?
> 
>  - If, as is called for in bug #128, 
>    https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/128, we also made PCRE 
>    a mandatory third party library and made DBFAWK support (which 
>    is the only thing that uses PCRE in Xastir) unconditional,
>    would you revolt?  This is pretty much necessary anymore, because
>    the alternative, hard-coded shapefile rendering, hasn't been maintained
>    in years and most of the shapefiles for which there is some hard coding
>    are almost as ancient and useless as worldhi.map.  We plan to remove
>    that option for the next release.
> 
>  - Do you have any favorite world shapefile maps that might be suitable 
>    as a world-wide default map that is shown when Xastir starts for the
>    first time (until told otherwise), to be included (and maintained) in 
>    the Xastir source tree and always installed?
> 
>    Licensing matters here.  I found some good ones, but while they were free,
>    they were not licensed in a way that is consistent with distributing with
>    a GPL code.  I found one or two that were licensed in a way we can
>    use, but they're part of enormous sets that would have to be separated
>    appropriately.  The one that seems to have the most promise to me
>    is mentioned in the bug report for this issue, 
>    https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152
> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM  
> 
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