Oops, sorry Curt, I see that your point is that you DIDN'T want the whole country in one shot!! OK....I see someone fixed the mapping between position coordinate and picking the map to get.
-Tom de VE4TRT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Tessier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
