Re: [Xastir] map problem on MEPIS

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Bennett
Rob, I disagree.to a point. Doing what you describe would add to immense overhead to the program for little gain. Problems and endless questions reflect on the quality of the documentation. A gazillion configuration options is a good thing but they all must be documented;

Re: [Xastir] Niggly bits to make it work

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Bennett
snipI'm not all about the flashy maps... don't take that the wrong way either, put a nice map display in front of me, and I start drooling. snip Me neither; I detest eye candy as it only adds wow factor at the expense of system resources and headaches for the developers. I do like accurate maps

Re: [Xastir] Right Click Capture Effect

2010-02-07 Thread Ian Bennett
snip I converted over to KDE4 last night. Again I wish I would have waited. snip I've had a number of problems with KDE4 running programs I was running under 3.5 and I agree the layout is different (read: rubbish). Thankfully, my dabbling has been within VirtualBox so apart from a lot of

Re: [Xastir] PNG,GIF,TIFF,or JPEG images as maps

2010-05-22 Thread Ian Bennett
Lee, Here is one (of many) I use. It's fairly self explanatory. This file is called tuggeranong.geo FILENAMEtuggeranong.jpg TIEPOINT0 0 149.001207 -35.373442 TIEPOINT56683471149.251204 -35.498439 IMAGESIZE 56683471 # # Converted

[Xastir] I've broken my Xastir install :-(

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Bennett
Sorry.forgot to mention I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 Group, I don't use Xastir that much; only for mobile tracking. I had installed version 1.9.6 a while ago and was using 1:25K raster maps I use for OziExplorer (don't ask; lng story ;-) ). Anyway, with all this talk about

Re: [Xastir] I've broken my Xastir install :-(

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Bennett
Gents, I got it working Went back through the install guide mentioned and ended up getting a message about an existing tree and that I should run make distclean. I did that for my original install and after a LOT of warnings when going through the get-mapinstall

Re: [Xastir] OSM, F4 KDE/Gnome

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Bennett
The F4 key works for me on Kubuntu 8.10 (which uses KDE 3.5) Ian On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:21:27 Rick Green wrote: FWIW: F4 seems to have no effect with latest cvs head when running under KDE 3.5 (Kubuntu 7.04) or Gnome (Ubuntustudio 10.04) Others reported it working under fvwm2. Might the

Re: [Xastir] Who's current on Garmin handheld GPS models?

2015-06-19 Thread Ian Bennett
Curt, I would be extremely interested in your machinations between the GPSMap series and the Oregon. I use a (very??) old GPSMap 60Csx which will run for days on two AA batteries. When it is in the car, I have it powered via the USB slot. When on the Kayak, it is powered via the

Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps

2015-11-15 Thread Ian Bennett
Has anyone installed this using the installation instructions on the website?? I get "Couldn't find module or a distribution downloadosmtiles.pl" messages for both methods. Ian VK1IAN On 16/11/15 03:58, Lee Bengston wrote: > >