It has been pointed out that when Xastir is started for the very first time ever, it selects the 'worldhi.map' file as the default map.
This map is so old it shows the USSR, East Germany, and Yugoslavia borders. This map was chosen because it is in a format that the absolute minimum build of Xastir can display, if no other map formats are supported. https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152 A long time ago a good set of shapefiles was identified that might serve as a better default view, but during investigation of those shapefiles we found a number of bugs in Xastir that were show-stoppers, and there was nobody with time to fix those bugs. Those bugs have been fixed in the last week or two, and it's time to consider the new maps as defaults. New features have been added to Xastir to make these new maps render as nicely as possible. The plan is that when Xastir starts up for the very first time, if the build supports shapefiles we'll default to these shapefiles as the map you get selected. Only if you're firing up a bare-minimum build of Xastir for the first run will you get the bare-minimum quality map. Since package managers aren't packaging bare-minimum builds, perhaps very few folks will be stuck with a crude late-1980s vintage world map. Please feel free to check out the proposed new default map set by downloading the data and building the latest Xastir. Please see this comment: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152#issuecommen t-3643187939 for how you can download the (2MB) tarball of the proposed new maps and their rendering rule DBFAWK files, and see if you like the look. If you don't want to download the data to view it, there are some screen shots on the issue report. -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
