http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw/xastir/box-snapshot.png
light green is background, blue is water, dark green is parks/refuges/ forests, black lines are highways, red lines are interstates/ controlled access roads, dashed lines are railroads, yellow areas are city limits. ===== Hi, Can I ask how you created/plotted the grey dotted rectangular box on the map? I am guessing its the search area of that particular aircraft? Was it a tracker device in the aircraft flying in that pattern, or was it a "man-made" object? thanks bernard On 09/08/2007, Jason Winningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Stephen - K1LNX wrote: > > > What is the limitation on this? Is it something that can't be coded > > in? > > Hard/complex? Just curious.... > > I suspect it's a limitation of the linestyles available in Xlib > without resorting to a) heavy coding, or b) adding yet another > support package requirement, but only the developer who made that > design decision knows for sure... > > > I'm willing to play, but in the end I want the best looking maps > > possible > > that are easy to read etc. > > "like google maps" is not the only solution to the problem "easy to > read". > > My maps evolved for a while before I settled on what I currently use, > and if I saw someone else's that I like or if another data set became > available they'd likely change again. > > I use National Atlas (www.nationalatlas.gov) shapefiles for zoom > levels > 128 and TIGER shapefiles <= 128. The Nat'l Atlas maps look > like this with my configuration: > > http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw/xastir/box-snapshot.png > > light green is background, blue is water, dark green is parks/refuges/ > forests, black lines are highways, red lines are interstates/ > controlled access roads, dashed lines are railroads, yellow areas are > city limits. > > > Here are the things that are easy to change with dbfawk controlled > shapefiles: > > - background color (OK, you don't do that with a dbfawk) > > - color and width of lines > > - style of lines (solid or dashed) > > - display level of particular features (this more or less adjusts the > level of detail) > > - color and pattern for filled polygons > > - display level for labels (can be different that display level for > the feature they describe) > > - don't display things you want to leave out entirely > > -Jason > kg4wsv > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
