[Xastir] Potential new "default" offline map in the works

[Tom Russo]

It has been pointed out that when Xastir is started for the very first time
ever, it selects the 'worldhi.map' file as the default map.

This map is so old it shows the USSR, East Germany, and Yugoslavia borders.

This map was chosen because it is in a format that the absolute minimum 
build of Xastir can display, if no other map formats are supported.

https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152

A long time ago a good set of shapefiles was identified that might serve
as a better default view, but during investigation of those shapefiles we
found a number of bugs in Xastir that were show-stoppers, and there was
nobody with time to fix those bugs.

Those bugs have been fixed in the last week or two, and it's time to consider
the new maps as defaults.  New features have been added to Xastir to make
these new maps render as nicely as possible.

The plan is that when Xastir starts up for the very first time, if the 
build supports shapefiles we'll default to these shapefiles as the map you
get selected.  Only if you're firing up a bare-minimum build of Xastir for 
the first run will you get the bare-minimum quality map.  Since package 
managers aren't packaging bare-minimum builds, perhaps very few folks will 
be stuck with a crude late-1980s vintage world map.

Please feel free to check out the proposed new default map set by downloading
the data and building the latest Xastir.

Please see this comment: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152#issuecommen
t-3643187939
for how you can download the (2MB) tarball of the proposed new maps and their
rendering rule DBFAWK files, and see if you like the look.

If you don't want to download the data to view it, there are some screen shots
on the issue report.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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