Re: [Xastir] Maps

2018-11-17 Thread Lee Bengston
I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 18.04 today, and I encountered the libcurl issue. The solution for me was to remove libcurl4-openssl-dev and install libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Recompiling Xastir after that change left me with an installation with maps working normally. In the map chooser, the

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2018-11-14 Thread Steve Rogers
, Steve kd5mkv Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> From: Xastir on behalf of Peter Lutz Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 6:37 PM To: xastir@lists.xastir.org Subject: [Xastir] Maps I have been trying to get a map to appear on my newly installed

[Xastir] Maps

2018-11-14 Thread Peter Lutz
I have been trying to get a map to appear on my newly installed xastir all afternoon. The new installation was required when Ubuntu 18.04 broke the libcurl3/4 link. I have been using xastir for many years, and usually manage to find some kind of map that works for Napa, CA and the surrounding

[Xastir] Placing OSMTiles Directory in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps

2018-10-19 Thread Jerry N7YGE
The OSMTiles are all .png. What command line is needed to use these tiles offline and where would you place the command line? Jerry N7YGE -Original Message- From: Xastir [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Curt, WE7U Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:03 AM To: Xastir -

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-06 Thread Joseph LaFerla
From: David A Aitcheson Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 1:52 PM To: Lee Bengston; Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Then we await Sir Dexter's results report with great anticipation! Dave - KB3EFS On 11/06/2017 01:46 PM, Lee Bengston wrote: > Fyi, Dex and I

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-06 Thread David A Aitcheson
smagick1-dev > >> package. If not, be sure to install that as well. > >> > >> Lee - K5DAT > >> > >> > >> > >> On Nov 3, 2017 10:58 AM, "Joseph LaFerla" <j...@laferla.ca > <mailto:j...@l

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-06 Thread Lee Bengston
to install that as well. >> >> Lee - K5DAT >> >> >> >> On Nov 3, 2017 10:58 AM, "Joseph LaFerla" <j...@laferla.ca> wrote: >> >> Yes I have expand dirs checked. When I moved to the source, I deleted >> .xastir and let xastir re

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-06 Thread David A Aitcheson
ved to the source, I deleted >> .xastir and let xastir recreate the dir. >> >> Joe >> >> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >> >> From: Jason KG4WSV >> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM >> To: Xastir - APRS client software discu

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-06 Thread Lee Bengston
.ca> wrote: > > Yes I have expand dirs checked. When I moved to the source, I deleted > .xastir and let xastir recreate the dir. > > Joe > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Jason KG4WSV > Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM > To: Xas

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-06 Thread Lee Bengston
en I moved to the source, I deleted .xastir and let xastir recreate the dir. Joe Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jason KG4WSV Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Did you click "expand dirs" on m

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Joseph LaFerla
Yes I have expand dirs checked. When I moved to the source, I deleted .xastir and let xastir recreate the dir. Joe Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jason KG4WSV Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:20 AM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Did you click

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Joseph LaFerla
I seem to have everything correct. When I moved from the binary, I did not save any maps. What maps should I have with a clean install from source? And like I said, the maps ARE listed in the Map Chooser and they ARE in/usr/local/share/xastir/maps, it’s just that when I select any one

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Did you click "expand dirs" on map chooser? Maybe the maps you like were moved into a subdirectory (e.g. Online) and they're just not visible. It may be possible there were some maps present in the binary distribution /usr/share/x

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Jason KG4WSV
Did you click "expand dirs" on map chooser? Maybe the maps you like were moved into a subdirectory (e.g. Online) and they're just not visible. It may be possible there were some maps present in the binary distribution /usr/share/xastir/maps that are no longer present? If you haven

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Joseph LaFerla wrote: Thanks for this. Actually I have already made those changes to /usr/local/share and the two maps DO appear in the Map Chooser but when I select either of them all I get is a grey background screen. All the stations are there, just not the map.

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Joseph LaFerla
other maps in Map Chooser, geogratis.gc.ca and nationalmap.gov, but neither of them give me any map. Joe Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Steve Rogers Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 9:14 AM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Your maps are in a binary

[Xastir] Maps

2017-11-03 Thread Joseph LaFerla
Hi With the help of many yesterday I was able to install xastir from source and get it to work – with one exception. I forgot to save any maps from my previous binary version. Now although xastir works fine, I have no map displayed. The map chooser shows geogratis.gc.ca and nationalmap.gov

Re: [Xastir] maps

2017-01-22 Thread Filip M. Stanic
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:25:49PM +, Steve Rogers wrote: > Hello I helping a local friend install xastir and his maps, are not show, ie > tiled cycle the online maps. I am not at > > his terminal and the xastirwiki is offline. > Which version of graphicsmagik is for ubuntu 14.04 using git

Re: [Xastir] maps

2017-01-19 Thread Steve Rogers
astir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] maps Hello Steve, Your stock version of GraphicsMagik should be fine for Ubuntu. Which tiled maps are you trying to use? "Online / OSM_tiled_fosm.geo" is working here. Btw, beyond the excellent Xastir wiki, these cri

Re: [Xastir] maps

2017-01-19 Thread Steve Rogers
Thanks Curt! Steve kd5mkv From: Xastir <xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org> on behalf of Curt Mills <curt.w...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 9:11 AM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] maps Looks like htt

Re: [Xastir] maps

2017-01-19 Thread David Ranch
Hello Steve, Your stock version of GraphicsMagik should be fine for Ubuntu. Which tiled maps are you trying to use? "Online / OSM_tiled_fosm.geo" is working here. Btw, beyond the excellent Xastir wiki, these crib notes might help you configure Xastir as well:

Re: [Xastir] maps

2017-01-19 Thread Curt Mills
Looks like httpd shut down yesterday. I applied the latest OS patches and rebooted it. It's back. BTW: We're under constant attack there on the SSH and the HTTP ports. There's quite a list of banned IP's in the firewall. Part of doing business these days. On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Steve

[Xastir] maps

2017-01-19 Thread Steve Rogers
Hello I helping a local friend install xastir and his maps, are not show, ie tiled cycle the online maps. I am not at his terminal and the xastirwiki is offline. Which version of graphicsmagik is for ubuntu 14.04 using git for v 2.0.9? Thanks Steve kd5mkv

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2016-08-19 Thread Dale Miller
On 8/18/2016 11:42 PM, Curt Mills wrote: Shut down Xastir and edit ~/.xstir/config/selected_maps.sys You might have a map listed in there that is slightly different than what you have in the map chooser for some reason, so it doesn't show. Another possibility is that you might have Automaps

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2016-08-18 Thread Curt Mills
Shut down Xastir and edit ~/.xstir/config/selected_maps.sys You might have a map listed in there that is slightly different than what you have in the map chooser for some reason, so it doesn't show. Another possibility is that you might have Automaps enabled. Disable that. More than likely

[Xastir] Maps

2016-08-18 Thread Dale Miller
I have a new to me system that I did a fresh install of Peppermint OS 7. Peppermint OS 7 is a Ubuntu Distro build of Ubuntu 16.04. I used the new git source and everything seems to be installed correctly and the maps all seem to be there. For some reason with any of the Online maps I get

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-16 Thread David Ranch
Hey Jason, There was some great threads on the offline tile server topic earlier this year and while I can do the work, the storage requirements seemed pretty high. My biggest issue is that I'm just not very happy with OSM in terms of having pretty maps. Google Maps say on aprs.fi are far

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

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,

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 >

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

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

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread Curt Mills
gt; To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion < >> xastir@lists.xastir.org> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps? Message-ID: >>

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread Dale Seaburg
then. ;-) Dale. KG5LT Message: 7 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:37:32 -0700 From: Curt Mills <curt.w...@gmail.com> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir@lists.xastir.org> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps? Message-ID:

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread Curt Mills
Another: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html With a quick reading it looks like the Tigermaps from 2007 to 2015 are all the same format, but please someone correct me if I'm wrong. If that's the case, the 2015 ones should work fine in Xastir: 2008 was the last format we

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread Curt Mills
Here's one place it appears you can get OSM Shapefile extracts: http://download.geofabrik.de/ Again, you most likely will have to create dbfawk files to go with them. It's not terribly difficult. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Curt Mills wrote: > I'm currently

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread Curt Mills
I'm currently using online maps: "Online/OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo" You may have to hunt for an OSM extract in Shapefile format. I used to use the "cloudmade" extracts and still have the ones for WA on this computer I think. You should be able to get quite a few different ones that use ESRI Shapefile

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread David A Aitcheson
That was fast! (and easy). 73 Dave KB3EFS FN24BI81GP On 07/14/2016 03:47 PM, David D. Clark wrote: > So I just did a pull from git (7/14 1346h MDT), recompiled, et voila > -- weather polygons! > > On 07/14/2016 01:20 PM, David D. Clark wrote: >> Hello Everybody, >> >> I am returning to using

Re: [Xastir] Maps?

2016-07-14 Thread David D. Clark
So I just did a pull from git (7/14 1346h MDT), recompiled, et voila -- weather polygons! On 07/14/2016 01:20 PM, David D. Clark wrote: Hello Everybody, I am returning to using xastir after a fairly long period of not using it. I have it compiled and running with everything except GDAL

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2015-09-09 Thread Kurt
> To: xastir@lists.xastir.org Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 2:53 PM Subject: [Xastir] Maps Good Day ALL I am using HTTP://download.geofabrik.de to get maps for use in an OFFLINE mapping directory.  My  problem is the dbfawk files.  Non existent for those maps,  At least I can't find an

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2015-09-09 Thread Curt Mills
Regarding the NOAA weather alert maps, there's a script that gets installed to /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts called "get-NWSdata" which you can run as root on your box to snag them and install them. It uses "wget" to fetch the files so you must have that installed. We periodically update that

[Xastir] Maps

2015-09-09 Thread W8EHH
Good Day ALL I am using HTTP://download.geofabrik.de to get maps for use in an OFFLINE mapping directory. My problem is the dbfawk files. Non existent for those maps, At least I can't find any. I have tried to follow the instructions in the How To : DBFAWK file. I have managed to get

Re: [Xastir] Maps problem

2015-08-25 Thread Tate B
Floyd, Going to need a good bit more detail about what you're doing to even begin to answer you questions. What platform are you on? How was Xastir installed (source or package) and what version? Specifically - what maps have you downloaded and where were they placed? How are you trying to

Re: [Xastir] Maps problem

2015-08-25 Thread Floyd Rodgers
*I think I followed the cookbook script that does apt-get . but it was at least a year ago for the install. unbuntu 12.04ltsmaps are basic aprs stuff like comes on winders platforms plus ozsm and online maps which show up in /usr/local/shar/xastir/maps as well in my download directoryWhen

Re: [Xastir] Maps problem

2015-08-25 Thread Tate B
. but it was at least a year ago for the install. unbuntu 12.04ltsmaps are basic aprs stuff like comes on winders platforms plus ozsm and online maps which show up in /usr/local/shar/xastir/maps as well in my download directoryWhen choosing an online map like texas local radar, I get the followingxastir

[Xastir] Maps problem

2015-08-24 Thread Floyd Rodgers
I have castor running and have downloaded and extracted 4gb of maps including the standard load of aprs maps. The problem is nothing ever appears on screen other than the individual station locations. What is the easy fix or test to see why they do not display? Kc5qbc

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Skyler F
I am reinstalling everything due to a crash because of some partition error, but why isn't gdal supported? Its right here in the install instructions for ubuntu http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_14.04 On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Hal Mueller h...@seanet.com wrote: What's the

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread ru...@bogodyn.org
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 07:50:46AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the electricity...@gmail.com flavor, containing: I am reinstalling everything due to a crash because of some partition error, but why isn't gdal supported? Not sure why gdal isn't picked up, but as the

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 02:42:48PM +, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the kg4...@yahoo.com flavor, containing: Is it just me, or is everyone getting double post from Skyler most of the time? To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Cc: Xastir -

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Skyler F
Well I finally got everything reinstalled, and it works fine now, the maps are being cached and not deleted. I think I did something wrong last install. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Skyler F electricity...@gmail.com wrote: I am reinstalling everything due to a crash because of some

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Max Harper
, 2015 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache Well I finally got everything reinstalled, and it works fine now, the maps are being cached and not deleted. I think I did something wrong last install. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Skyler F electricity...@gmail.com wrote: I am

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Curt Mills
They have both. However, depending on how the the files are created, you may have to create a dbfawk file to go with them so the labels appear, or appear as you like. Dbfawk files are specific to Xastir. There are several on here who could help you with that part, assuming you have some time

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Curt Mills
FYI: I wouldn't use cached maps for an event. Too much can go wrong. Use Shapefile extracts if you want to use OSM maps. Find links to extracts here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles For instance, I can get a Shapefile extract for WA state here:

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Curt Mills
Also check out the Services generating custom shapefile downloads. A couple of those look interesting. You want ESRI Shapefile maps in this case. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Curt Mills curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: I wouldn't use cached maps for an event. Too much can go wrong. Use

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Skyler F
Are shapefiles simply lines, or do they have street names, etc? On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Curt Mills curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Also check out the Services generating custom shapefile downloads. A couple of those look interesting. You want ESRI Shapefile maps in this case. On Mon,

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Skyler F
I have plenty of time. My whole APRS station has to be set up by early July. I am starting early though because I know I suck at getting things to work on linux, and am particularly worried about getting hardware to work. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Curt Mills curt.w...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-11 Thread Skyler F
Oops, when I hit reply, it does that, I don't know why On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Tom Russo ru...@bogodyn.org wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 02:42:48PM +, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the kg4...@yahoo.com flavor, containing: Is it just me, or is everyone getting

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 07:12:44PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the h...@seanet.com flavor, containing: This smells to me (without looking at the code) like a tile cache size limit problem. I don't know what xastir used to decide how much map data to cache, but that's

Re: [Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-10 Thread Hal Mueller
What's the algorithm for deciding to dump/clear the cache? Or does that ever happen? Hal ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir

[Xastir] Maps won't cache

2015-05-10 Thread Skyler F
I have xastir running on Ubuntu. I installed it there to get sound modem working. I have open street maps on there and want to use them offline. However, when I move from a zone that isn't cached to a zone that is, all of the cached maps are deleted. This did not happen on Mac, just Ubuntu. Is

[Xastir] Maps OSM

2015-01-17 Thread Dave H
I'm lucky to still have a pc running (mainly Inet but sometimes RF) Xastir with local OSM maps - is there a procedure I can follow to transfer the whole map cache over from the one pc to the new one? I tried just scp'ing from the map_cache directory over - which failed on a database error -

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps

2013-12-08 Thread Thomas Adsit
, Lee Bengston lee.bengs...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 2:28 PM http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.04-binary There is a newer version built for Ubuntu 12.04

[Xastir] Fwd: Xastir Maps

2013-12-08 Thread Lee Bengston
resending - got a bounce message from the list for some reason. -- Forwarded message -- From: Lee Bengston lee.bengs...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Try

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps

2013-12-07 Thread Thomas Adsit
Tom Adsit Ham Radio Call Sign K8WDX   On Sat, 12/7/13, Lee Bengston lee.bengs...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 3:43

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps

2013-12-07 Thread Lee Bengston
wrote: Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 3:43 AM Yes, I am displaying maps. I am using the Online/OSM tiled mapnick choice. The only other Online/OSM selection that works for me

[Xastir] Xastir Maps

2013-12-06 Thread Thomas Adsit
Anyone able to get Xastir to display maps?, I got it working with the radio displaying stations, but just the blank background world map, I tried the online map now program just freezes with the spinning circle, how can I fix this? I am no Linux expert, so please terms that a casual user can

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Maps

2013-12-06 Thread Lee Bengston
Yes, I am displaying maps. I am using the Online/OSM tiled mapnick choice. The only other Online/OSM selection that works for me is the tiled cycle option. I think some older choices that don't work any more need to be removed. If those 2 above that work for me do not work for you, then

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Gregory
Liz, Right on all counts. I am still working it. Am making slow but steady progress. Thanks for your help. 73 KB3IYQ Michael Gregory michael.greg...@verizon.net On 2013-10-21, at 9:35 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:45:34 -0400 Michael Gregory

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Gregory
my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long as they are of a limited set of vector graphics. It remains to be seen whether raster graphics will work because they require no only the raster graphics, (.png, .gif, .tif

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Lee Bengston
, (2.0.0), works flawlessly as soon as the user figures out that the information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Paul Burton
sorted, it worked brilliantly. The mint package installed version, (2.0.0), works flawlessly as soon as the user figures out that the information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Gregory
installed version, (2.0.0), works flawlessly as soon as the user figures out that the information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Curt, WE7U wrote: You haven't mentioned what sort of raster graphics you're interested in yet. I would recommend using the OSM maps as a first step, which are vector maps from the OpenStreetMaps project. Xastir can use OSM maps directly w/o having to download them

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
as soon as the user figures out that the information on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long as they are of a limited set of vector

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread David A Aitcheson
bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long as they are of a limited set of vector graphics. It remains to be seen whether raster graphics will work because they require no only the raster graphics, (.png

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 21 Oct 2013, Michael Gregory wrote: I did use synaptic. and it got me version 2.0.0. The issue is getting nice maps that I can use off line. not which version I have or how I came to get it. Well, the reason people ask about version is that there are sometimes very important

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Wells
on the wiki about putting map files in ~/xastir/map_cache is totally bogus. By placing my maps in usr/share/xastir/maps they become available in the map chooser drop down and can be used just fine so long as they are of a limited set of vector graphics. It remains to be seen whether raster graphics will work

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Paul Burton
On Oct 22, 2013 5:29 PM, Ray Wells vk...@exemail.com.au wrote: Yes synaptic is a front end for apt but it's much easier to use, especially when one is looking for files with changed names. Synaptic allows searching on partial names and one can scroll though a list, looking for likely candidates

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Wells
Paul, Maybe it's just me but I find apt-cache search uninviting. To each their own but at least we've presented options. Ray vk2tv On 23/10/13 08:36, Paul Burton wrote: On Oct 22, 2013 5:29 PM, Ray Wells vk...@exemail.com.au wrote: Yes synaptic is a front end for apt but it's much easier

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Lee Bengston
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Michael Gregory michael.greg...@verizon.net wrote: Lee, I did use synaptic. and it got me version 2.0.0. The issue is getting nice maps that I can use off line. not which version I have or how I came to get it. 73 KB3IYQ Michael Gregory

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-22 Thread Lee Bengston
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Ray Wells vk...@exemail.com.au wrote: Yes synaptic is a front end for apt but it's much easier to use, especially when one is looking for files with changed names. Exactly, which is why I suggested using it. Apt-cache search is OK, but I prefer Synaptic.

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Gregory
I removed Xastir completely. Both by telling my package manager to removeit, and then by manually going to all of the directory locations ~/... and user share…. and manually deleting all of the files. I them re-installed it by having the package manager re-install. I then went to the web and

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-21 Thread Liz
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:45:34 -0400 Michael Gregory michael.greg...@verizon.net wrote: So for now It works but it sucks. I have not given up. eventually I will get it to work right in spite of the lack of support fom the community rather than because of it. Michael, we really don't have much

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2013-10-21 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 07:45:34PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the michael.greg...@verizon.net flavor, containing: I removed Xastir completely. Both by telling my package manager to removeit, and then by manually going to all of the directory locations ~/... and

[Xastir] Maps are downloading, but not displaying

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Burton
I've compiled xastir 2.0.4 from source with just about every dependency installed (IOW, configure runs happily without any complaints except that shapefile support will be built into the xastir binary). I'm not using festival either, but that doesn't bother me (and I don't see how it could

Re: [Xastir] Maps are downloading, but not displaying

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:17:41AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the paulburt...@gmail.com flavor, containing: TBD: I don't think we can deal with colorspace != RGB [...] It then repeats the TBD: I don't think... line indefinitely at odd intervals. Something I

Re: [Xastir] Maps are downloading, but not displaying

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 08:18:37AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the ru...@bogodyn.org flavor, containing: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:17:41AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the paulburt...@gmail.com flavor, containing: TBD: I don't think we can deal

Re: [Xastir] Maps are downloading, but not displaying

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Burton
On 10/17/2013 10:18 AM, Tom Russo wrote: The alert is coming from the code that processes the .geo format, which requires either ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. I have seen a lot of people say they are having this problem, but I have *never* seen it myself. I have no idea what the cause

Re: [Xastir] Maps are downloading, but not displaying

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:56:12PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the paulburt...@gmail.com flavor, containing: OK, so I could have sworn that when I first downloaded xastir and was getting ready to compile it, I made sure that GraphicsMagick was installed.

Re: [Xastir] Maps are downloading, but not displaying

2013-10-17 Thread Paul Burton
OK, so I could have sworn that when I first downloaded xastir and was getting ready to compile it, I made sure that GraphicsMagick was installed. Apparently not, as ImageMagick has been used instead. When I installed GM and used the --without-imagemagick configure option, just for good measure,

Re: [Xastir] Maps!!!

2012-04-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Ryan Collier wrote: 1.) The program is saving the maps but I can not get the program to find the cache map files. The cache map files are being saved here... /home/user/.xastir/map_cache Which maps? The OSM map tiles are saved in ~/.xastir/OSMtiles/ Others can be cached

[Xastir] Maps!!!

2012-04-09 Thread Ryan Collier
Good Evening, Want to start off with a congrats on a great program. Now to what I am having a problem with: 1.) The program is saving the maps but I can not get the program to find the cache map files. The cache map files are being saved here... /home/user/.xastir/map_cache 2.) Everytime it

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2011-07-30 Thread Tim Billingsley
Now that life has settled a bit. tim@box2:~$ ls -al ~/.xastir/OSMtiles ls: cannot access /home/tim/.xastir/OSMtiles: No such file or directory Still no maps here, but all else is working great to the best of my knowledge. I tried doing a locate on OSMtiles No success. I don't know what I missed

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2011-07-30 Thread Lee Bengston
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:27 AM, WE0Z bbaile...@att.net wrote: I have not gotten experienced enough to develop my own map library so I rely of the Internet download from Osmerander. While I see it downloads the tiles and paints the map and I realize it takes time to download and then it caches

[Xastir] Maps

2011-06-24 Thread WE0Z
I have not gotten experienced enough to develop my own map library so I rely of the Internet download from Osmerander. While I see it downloads the tiles and paints the map and I realize it takes time to download and then it caches maps every time it downloads new tiles. The question I have

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2011-06-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, WE0Z wrote: I have not gotten experienced enough to develop my own map library so I rely of the Internet download from Osmerander. While I see it downloads the tiles and paints the map and I realize it takes time to download and then it caches maps every time it downloads

[Xastir] maps: how many are too many?

2011-04-21 Thread Jason KG4WSV
I've been playing around with some OSM tile mapping in other applications (tangogps, etc). I know xastir has some OSM tile support, but it's meant for online operation. So, I started playing around. I'm using an ubuntu VM on my macbook pro. 2.66GHz i7, 4Gb RAM, 1 processor allocated to VM.

Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline?

2010-09-22 Thread Kurt Savegnago
--- On Tue, 9/21/10, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: From: Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline? To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 4:39 PM On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Kurt Savegnago wrote

Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline?

2010-09-22 Thread Lee Bengston
, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline? To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion xastir@lists.xastir.org Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 4:39 PM On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Kurt Savegnago wrote:   Yeah, I meant the 2006 Tiger maps that were made available. I unzipped

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