[Xastir] how do I edit Map Chooser online lists

[Steven Morrison]

Thanks, Tom.?? I'm glad to get those old sources out of that list.

On 2/4/2020 1:51 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 01:29:42PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <morrison.monahans at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
>> I've been running Xastir for many years,?? and I'd like to edit and remove
>> old online map sources that are no longer available. Can anyone point me to
>> information and adding and removing online map sources from the Map Chooser
>> list.
>>
>> I'd like to remove sources such as Cloudmade and Terraserver sources still
>> appear in my map chooser, and are no longer functional.
> Remove the obsolete map files from the directory where they were installed,
> then reindex maps.
>
> Look in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online and get rid of the ones
> that Xastir no longer installs.  Once that's done, using Xastir's
> "Reindex All Maps" will re-examine the contents of the maps directory
> and reconstruct its index.  The result will be that those maps will
> stop appearing in the chooser.  They will continue to appear in the
> chooser UNTIL you reindex, though, because the chooser is constructed
> from the local index in your ~/.xastir/cnf/map_index.sys file.
>
> The problem here is that when you update Xastir, it doesn't remove
> previously installed files that are no longer installed by new
> versions --- they just stay around as zombies until you remove them by
> hand.
>
> The easiest way to see which maps are zombies is to do an update of Xastir
> from source and install it, then look at /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online
> and see which maps are NOT dated with today's dates.  Those are the ones
> that we removed from the distribution because we know they don't work anymore.
> They are safe to remove by hand and will not get reinstalled next time you
> update.
>
> If you find maps that ARE installed by the current version and which
> are broken, we either need to get them fixed or get rid of them.
>