[Xastir] standards are wonderful...

2009-08-21 Thread mark . rice
Standards are wonderful... there's so many to choose from. But I was really getting furious... I was given a slightly used motherboard and thought it was time to upgrade the OS and Xastir (was using Fedora Core 5 and Xastir 1.84). So I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 and things went pretty smoothly with

Re: [Xastir] standards are wonderful...

2009-08-21 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Fri, 8/21/09, mark.rice wrote: Finally, I wondered if the serial ribbon cable had the proper pin-out for the motherboard header  no, it didn't.  It wasn't even close, and I kick myself for not checking that.  But who would make their own standard, eh?  That's a little

Re: [Xastir] standards are wonderful...

2009-08-21 Thread Niall Parker
Alex Carver wrote: --- On Fri, 8/21/09, mark.rice wrote: Finally, I wondered if the serial ribbon cable had the proper pin-out for the motherboard header no, it didn't. It wasn't even close, and I kick myself for not checking that. But who would make their own standard, eh? That's a

[Xastir] OT: Comercial mapping / directions software that includes Canada?

2009-08-21 Thread David Flood
As someone who occasionally works on maps for bike rides that I then support as a Public Service event, I find myself working on one for next year that will spend some time just north of the border (Lauier to Danville to be exact). Are there any commercial, Street Atlas like programs that have

Re: [Xastir] OT: Commercial mapping / directions software that includes Canada?

2009-08-21 Thread David Flood
Detailed discussion of this taken off-list via Jabber with Curt. If there was a program with the ease of use of Street Atlas that mapped shapefiles, I'd take a look. I do see that SA 2009 claims to have Canada data. I've been using 2008 since it is backwards compatible with ToPo 7 files. May

Re: [Xastir] OT: Commercial mapping / directions software that includes Canada?

2009-08-21 Thread Brad Douglas
I missed part of this conversation, but as a GIS person, I've had little trouble getting reasonable data for Canadia. Here's an accuracy map for ESRI's free North American vector street maps: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisonline/supplemental_images/StreetMap_Cov_NA.jpg I also