Re: [Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 293, Issue 2

2016-07-15 Thread Dexter N Muir
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Re: [Xastir] Some Pocket Chip Success

2016-07-15 Thread Kurt
Hey,   I ordered a Pocket CHIP last summer for the heck of it and it arrived last week. Next Thing Co.   After getting through some issuesof flashing the thing with the 4.4 GUI  C.H.I.P. Flasher I got Xastir through apt-get.  It's a Debian Jessie distro and the 4.4 and 4.3 gui'swith Gnome run on

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-15 Thread Kurt
We "needs" something ready made that neophytes and the geographically, academically impaired can just drop in a directoryre-index and then go.  I still have around some of the old Tiger 2006 and Cloudmade maps from 2008 from mine and surrounding states.  It's just too derned easy to have a drop-

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-15 Thread Jason Godfrey
On the topic of pretty offline maps, I have followed online directions to setup my own local OSM tile server and then created an xastir mapfile to point to localhost. It's not trivial, but if you are comfortable with basic system administration and building codes it is doable. - Jason On Fri, Jul

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-15 Thread Curt Mills
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:54 AM, David Ranch wrote: > > I've never used any of this dbfawk capability before but beyond it's > offline ability, I've always been curious on it's performance benefits, > maybe it's better looking than OSM, etc. Could you post some screen > captures of what things l

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-15 Thread David Ranch
Hey Curt, I've never used any of this dbfawk capability before but beyond it's offline ability, I've always been curious on it's performance benefits, maybe it's better looking than OSM, etc. Could you post some screen captures of what things look like on your tuned dbfawk setup with a zoom

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-15 Thread Curt Mills
I should have specified that this is only for the Git version of Xastir (development version). If you're running that version already do a "git pull" to get the latest, then configure/build/install Xastir again to get the latest files installed. For those not running the latest, you can snag the d

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-15 Thread Curt Mills
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Curt Mills wrote: > http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK > > I looked at the geofabrik.de files a bit for WA. There don't appear to be > land-mass layer or lake layers, but otherwise they look good. I have roads > and water layers displaying already but the db