Greetings, First let me preface this that I love Xastir and it's capabilities. I don't know what my SAR team would do without it. Please don't take the below as a criticism. I'm very appreciative of all the hard work that the developers put into Xastir.
Now for my problem: raster maps seem painfully slow to zoom in/out and pan. This is on a laptop with a dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, and maps stored on an SSD drive. I'm not sure where the bottleneck is at, but it takes a long time to move around on the map. I don't have this issue with other mapping applications on the same computer (qgis, and Maptech/MyTopo Terrain Navigator in wine). Qgis opens the same maps very quickly and I can pan/zoom around without any trouble. I don't have any issue with the speed of vector maps (shapefiles, in my case). Is the issue something that I've configured something incorrectly, or are raster maps in Xastir normally slow? Is it a library that Xastir uses that causes the slowness, or code in Xastir itself? One idea I had for a workaround was to use postgresql+postgis with Xastir to put the positions into a database, and then load those positions into qgis for my raster mapping needs. The issue I ran into was I couldn't get the postgis stuff to work quite right because I'm a complete newbie to it, so I'm not sure if the problems I encountered were all my fault or just incomplete database support in Xastir. Another idea I had was to use aprskml connected to the local server port along with Google Earth. This works quite well when I have a good Internet connection for the GE maps to load, but not so great in the middle of the wilderness! If anyone has any suggestions for my issue I'm all ears. Developers, keep up the good work! Thanks. Kevin KB9MQU _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
