Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:56 -0700, Jeremy Utley wrote: There's one minor thing that has always bugged me with Xastir - don't know if anyone else has ever encountered this - but at least on my screen (which I run at 1600x1200x24bit), the callsigns next to each name are VERY hard to read - is there any way to increase their size or anything to make them more readable? You can see a sample of what I'm referring to at: http://www.jutley.org/temp/xastir.png I've found that for online tigermap, setting map intensity to 60% and changing the station text style to text on black makes it much easier to read. Ryan, KB0JQO ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry
Curt, WE7U wrote: This should probably go in as a togglebutton at some point. how feasible/useful is it for stuff like this to be configurable from the config file, but not actually have a GUI tie-in? Would it help features get into the code a little more quickly if it could be done by editing the config file manually? For example, I'd like to see the GNIS levels configurable at a level higher than editing source code. Of course, given that the latest GNIS format is less than useful, maybe I should just convert what I have to shapefiles and use a dbfawk to scratch that particular itch. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry
On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: Or create new GNIS files somehow? Well, you're one of the developers, so you tell me if it makes more sense to: - create new GNIS files in the old format with new data (assuming that's possible) - re-code so that xastir understands the new GNIS format - convert the GNIS files to shapefiles, and abandon the GNIS support built into xastir That last one makes a certain amount of sense to me (a non-developer) since shapelib support has been integrated with the standard distribution. I can't even remember now what the problem with the GNIS files were; the format changed, but did it change so that they are no longer useful? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: - create new GNIS files in the old format with new data (assuming that's possible) Probably the worst option. - re-code so that xastir understands the new GNIS format Better. - convert the GNIS files to shapefiles, and abandon the GNIS support built into xastir Better yet. IMHO That last one makes a certain amount of sense to me (a non-developer) since shapelib support has been integrated with the standard distribution. Yes. Before we had done that it wouldn't have made sense, as GNIS was one of our native formats and Shapelib wasn't. I can't even remember now what the problem with the GNIS files were; the format changed, but did it change so that they are no longer useful? The populations of the cities disappeared from the files, which we used to determine which cities to show at which zoom levels. Since Shapefiles have support for point formats, I'm good with converting. -- 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 Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
