[Xastir] Archaic default map

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:51:56PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kilo5dat at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Tiles require either Imagemagick or GraphicsMagick, and as Tom already
> stated that's not desirable for a minimum install of Xastir.

Yeah, but his follow-up appears to be volunteering to try to find a shapefile
representation of the OSM data from which the Stamen tiles are generated.
So long as the license is consistent (it may not be) that is helpful.

We're also looking at naturalearth's shapefiles, which include a relatively
small (750k or so), fairly rough map that could be suitable.  

We're not looking to have a default map that's high quality and beautiful,
just one that isn't 30 years out of date.  We already have a low quality
and ugly map, it's just also wrong.  It's about 250k.

If a user wants a GOOD map, they're still going to have to do some work,
either by building Xastir with support for on-line maps, or by finding 
more detailed local maps that suit their specific needs.  The naturalearth
maps include much more detailed shapefiles that could be such a choice, but
they're way too large to be part of the Xastir distribution.

> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 3:05 AM Hal Mueller <hal at seanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Roughly what file size are we targeting? The Stamen stuff is based on Open
> > Street Map. I think the country level data will be fairly easy to extract
> > from OSM, or (more likely) already exists. If I see a way through I???ll hop
> > over to github and self assign.
> >
> > Hal
> > N3YX
> >
> > > On Jul 28, 2019, at 11:27 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Only vector maps need apply, specifically shapefile.  Anything else
> > requires
> > > too many TPLs, and that would be too big a "minimum" install.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:25:59PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <hal at seanet.com> flavor, containing:
> > >> Perhaps a joined together version of tiles at
> > http://maps.stamen.com/toner/#5/38.221/17.402? What pixel size is
> > preferred? How much space can it consume?
> > >>
> > >> Hal
> > >> N3YX
> >
> >
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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