I put all the grid maps into a file call grids, and that I put that
into another file call Big Grids, put when I go to launch Xastir it
loads all of them every time. And when I pull up the map chooser all
of them get indexed, it takes ages to find just the files I want, to
launch Xastir or change maps.
On Sep 22, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote:
First, I'm still having a problem at higher zoom levels seeing the
grid square number, I see the lines but not the numbers, not sure
why. On the same note I'd like to know if there is a way to control
the color of both the lines and the numbers, so that if the
background color is white like on Tiger maps for example I could
turn the lines and numbers red or some other contrasting color.
If they're Shapefiles then you can use the dbfawk facility to mess
with colors and such. See the README.MAPS file which should point
you to one of Tom's web pages for the real scoop.
How can I set up the grids to only load for the maps showing on the
screen?
Again if they're shapefiles they should do this automatically.
Xastir keeps an index file of the extents for each map and refuses
to load maps that aren't on the screen. This speeds things up a
lot. Now, if your grids are very large compared to what you're
viewing, then you want to add in the rtree functionality if you
don't have it, which speeds up this particular case.
And how can I clean up the map chooser, scrolling through all the
grid maps makes finding anything else time consuming and difficult.
Maybe we need to talk to Curt and the other developers about a
search box on the map chooser.
Put the grid maps in a separate folder. You can organize things any
way you like under the /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/ directory.
Keeping them in folders and then just enabling/disabling the folders
instead of the individual maps is a quicker way to operate.
Hope you have time to talk about this, you did such great work with
all the grids and I would really like to make good use of them in
my SAR and balloon tracking activities.
Love to help the SAR guys. I-B-1-2.
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