On 10/4/07, William McKeehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, October 4, 2007 5:49 pm, Jason Winningham wrote: > > > Ye gods, xastir already supports hundreds of formats. If there's an > > area of xastir lacking, that ain't it. (: > > I would almost agree - but there are 2 specific things that many people > would > like to see in Xastir (these are unseen for good reason). > > 1 - Google maps > 2 - Integration with something like Precision Mapping (like UI-View32)
In other words... 1. More readable/usable maps that are retrieved online 2. More readable/usable maps that can be used offline I vote for number 2 as the higher priority because the offline maps could be used whether a computer is connected or not. It seems to me that the Tiger2006_SE shapefiles have all the information - it's just that the info needs to be presented in a better way. Applying dbfawk seems capable of only marginal improvement. Now to really move on to some wishful thinking, what I would like to see is an open-source based "Street Atlas" program based perhaps on Tiger data that is presented in a better looking, more readable format. Of course, the new program would be designed in such a way that xastir could use it. Regards, Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
