Tom, you are doing a thankless job so I am saying thank you for all you do with Xastir. Sent from Stan’s IPhone
> On Dec 11, 2025, at 11:39 PM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since my attempt to get early feedback on the map set by providing > a tarball was a disaster (bad instructions, poorly constructed tarball, > and who knows what else), we have just gone ahead and pushed the new map > and initial map selection process to github on the master branch. > > If you track the bleeding edge of Xastir code, it's there now. > > The maps are installed in ${xastir's install > prefix}/share/xastir/maps/NaturalEarth > by "make install". > > A brand new user, if running a version of Xastir with shapefile support, > will get their brand new config directory populated such that the new maps > just magically show up. > > If they don't have shapefile support compiled in, they get the same old map > we have had since 2006. > > This has no impact on existing users with active .xastir/config directories > in their home directory, other than providing a new map option they can > choose themselves from the map chooser. > > There may be tweaks required to the dbfawks between now and the next release, > but please check out the new included maps and see how they look to you. > > These are not intended to be detailed maps. They are the bare minimum > map to get something interesting to look at the first time you open Xastir, > and for that something to be a bit closer to this century's world borders. > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 12:44:33PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> It has been pointed out that when Xastir is started for the very first time >> ever, it selects the 'worldhi.map' file as the default map. >> >> This map is so old it shows the USSR, East Germany, and Yugoslavia borders. >> >> This map was chosen because it is in a format that the absolute minimum >> build of Xastir can display, if no other map formats are supported. >> >> https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152 >> >> A long time ago a good set of shapefiles was identified that might serve >> as a better default view, but during investigation of those shapefiles we >> found a number of bugs in Xastir that were show-stoppers, and there was >> nobody with time to fix those bugs. >> >> Those bugs have been fixed in the last week or two, and it's time to consider >> the new maps as defaults. New features have been added to Xastir to make >> these new maps render as nicely as possible. >> >> The plan is that when Xastir starts up for the very first time, if the >> build supports shapefiles we'll default to these shapefiles as the map you >> get selected. Only if you're firing up a bare-minimum build of Xastir for >> the first run will you get the bare-minimum quality map. Since package >> managers aren't packaging bare-minimum builds, perhaps very few folks will >> be stuck with a crude late-1980s vintage world map. >> >> Please feel free to check out the proposed new default map set by downloading >> the data and building the latest Xastir. >> >> Please see this comment: >> https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/152#issuecommen >> t-3643187939 >> for how you can download the (2MB) tarball of the proposed new maps and their >> rendering rule DBFAWK files, and see if you like the look. >> >> If you don't want to download the data to view it, there are some screen >> shots >> on the issue report. >> >> -- >> Tom Russo KM5VY >> Tijeras, NM >> >> echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY > Tijeras, NM > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
