Hi Curt, Hmmm....I thought I wrote that routine a couple years ago and included it in the sources. It used to grab the whole set. In fact, I found errors in their maps designations on Elesmere Island.
-Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Tessier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Tom Tessier wrote: > > > I stopped relying on the on-line Toporama site as an on-demand online > > reference and downloaded the maps I needed to my local drive. Natural > > Resources Canada makes the maps available on the basis that they expect > > users to download them manually rather than as repeated downloads as online > > references like a Google Map or MapQuest reference. Toporama are bitmap > > scans of the maps you can buy in hardcopy, which is why they are so big. I > > have found that NRCan makes changes to their server structures from time to > > time, and that adds to the confusion. > > Hi Tom, long time no hear... > > If we had a download script for Xastir that didn't download the > entire country in one shot, it might be more useful to people. > Perhaps someone should work on that. Disk space and download speed > can be a limiting factor for people. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown > "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U > "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
