Have you checked file ownership and permissions? ls -l on your map folder will tell a lot.
Tom KD7LXL On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:06 AM, John Dvoracek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a lot of issues trying to get xastir running under Fedora 9 > on a Thinkpad where xastir ran fine under Fedora 7. I'm also trying to > have this working by Saturday morning for an event. I've given up on > getting online maps working since there seems to be some bug with those > as also experienced by others. Instead I downloaded shapefile maps for > one Texas county, but xastir does not seem to recognize them. Hopefully > I am just installing them incorrectly. On startup xastir says it > supports shapefile maps: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# xastir > Built-in map types: > gnis USGS GNIS Datapoints > map APRSdos Maps > map WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps > pdb PocketAPRS Maps > Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: > geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats > allowed) > geo URL (Internet maps via libcurl library) > shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library) > tif USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj) > xpm X Pixmap Maps (XPM library) > festival_client: connect to server failed > SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival > Indexing maps... > Finished indexing maps > *** Reading WX Alert log files > *** Done with WX Alert log files > > I downloaded the Texas county shapefile maps from Texas A&M as > referenced in the xastir map wiki, then extracted and installed the > county of interest in my map directory as shown in this recursive > directory listing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] maps]# ls -R > .: > GPS Online TX_Polygons TX_Polylines worldhi.map > > ./GPS: > placeholder > > ./Online: > CanadaTopo250k.geo terraserver-reflectivity.geo tigermap.geo > WMSRadar.geo > CanadaTopo50k.geo terraserver-topo.geo TXRadar.geo > terraserver.geo terraserver-urban.geo USRadar.geo > > ./TX_Polygons: > Bell_County.dbf Bell_County.shp Bell_County.shx > > ./TX_Polylines: > Bell_County.dbf Bell_County.prj Bell_County.shp Bell_County.shx > > TX_Polyogns and TXPolylines show up as directories in the map chooser > dialog, but none of the maps within those directories show up. Do I > have to do something else to use shapefiles? Thanks for any help at > this late moment. > > 73 -- John > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
