Hi Jerry:
Thank you for the offer. I will send you a direct email off list.
However, I would like to help others who run into this same wall on
list. On the wiki, I guess lots of data was destroyed or something, so
there are some really major gaps in the manual and how-to files.
xastir could really use a HELP BUTTON so a user can click that and
hover over a menu choice .. This stuff is very esoteric and cryptic to
non-goe folks like me :(
TU again
On 02/16/2014 08:38 PM, Jerry Wetherholt wrote:
Tiger line are full maps that can be downloaded to hard drive. I have been
using them for years without using internet for maps. I run a tablet in my
vehicle Linux for operating system. Xastir for the aprs. I have whole state tx
saved on my hard drive and only takes about 7gb hat drive space. I also run a
tablet with tnc radio for my igate at my house. If you want to talk on phone we
could. It really is easy to run xastir off the tiger line maps and they are
pretty accurate.
Jerry
Kf5aok
Kf5aok-5 is my igate running this software.
Kf5aok-4 is my vehicle running same software but on mobile station
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On Feb 16, 2014, at 8:30 PM, "MJ Inabnit" <[email protected]> wrote:
I was hoping for something more automagic.
What is the least painful here--using OSM or buying some kind of disc?
I would like to populate maps into cache so the program can just grab the map
from the drive and not be connected to internet once I get the maps.
Seems like there should be an easy way for this in this day and age (not
grumping, just sayin')
Even if I close the program and re-open it, the program stalls for many
minutes, even though, if I understand it, it should already have the map in the
cache.
I am stumped.
On 02/14/2014 03:57 PM, Jerry Wetherholt wrote:
If it helps I use tiger line 2008. Had zero issues and I downloaded all 50
states and dc
Jerry
Kf5aok
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On Feb 14, 2014, at 2:35 PM, MJ Inabnit <[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings all:
I've been poking around howto/wiki/readme/archives etc trying to figure out a "very
simple way" to add online maps and cache them on the hard drive so xastir can still
have maps while off-line.
So far, the server times out, and mm.aprs.net doesn't resolve (from running
xastir from terminal window). This basically makes xastir stupid and it fails
to function at all. I kill it and remove the .config and start from scratch,
but there must be a better way..
I really am an idiot when it comes to this stuff. The chooser is extremely
ambiguous and I fail to infer what any given title might render. What I hope
to do is make a very basic how-to for Mint LTS versions of xastir and
soundmodem. I'm using Kamal's updated ham software PPA repository for these
binaries. So far, I've had tons of fun and have built my first loaner laptop
which is now in a remote area of Humboldt county California. I'm building the
next loaner laptop now, but after seeing the map failure with my first laptop
once it was out of reach of the internet and cached maps completely failed to
render, I want to make sure I get this one correct. .. :)
What would be perfect is something that will look like google maps that show up
when I go to aprs.fi.
I've spent several days digesting info found on the net, but I seem to still be
at ground zero ..
Thank you,
73
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