I can hit it from inside the TAMU firewall, and the firewall status page
shows it open. If you can get to it with a web browser, it is
working... especially if you used the url ftp://aprs.tamu.edu
Try again, but when you invoke ftp from the command line or the gui,
don't use the ftp:// URL qualifier.
Drop me a note or call my cell (tomorrow, please; I need to hit the sack
for a long day tomorrow) if you need help. If there's a problem we want
to identify it and fix it.
73 gerry
Eric Christensen wrote:
I can get to this site via a web browser but couldn't get connected when
trying to connect to it with a FTP client. I'd like to be able to grab
all the data at once via FTP. Is this available?
Eric KF4OTN
Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
Well I managed to download the shapefiles for my county based off of the
Tiger map data from
ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/Maps/TIGER/xastir.tamu.edu/2004/counties/TN/
Inside the zip file I see this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2516491 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.dbf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1368321 2005-02-27 07:38
TN_Carter_County_Poly.dbf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746272 2005-02-27 07:38
TN_Carter_County_Poly.shp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25444 2005-02-27 07:38
TN_Carter_County_Poly.shx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.prj
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1700828 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103820 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shx
I unzipped these all to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and started up xastir,
and found the corresponding shapefile in the maps chooser menu and was able
to get the map to show up in xastir. Not the prettiest thing in the world,
but at least it's working.
Reading over this page
http://www.swcp.com/~russo/shape_web/tutorial.htmland it appears that
there are a lot of options you can configure, but a
little of this was over my head at this point.
So now that I have some data, I would like to make it look like the
original
tiger data and dont really know where to begin? What are all those
different
files for and how can I start editing this to my liking?
I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and
Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow
use
that data as well if xastir supports it?
I have to say this is the most I have ever used xastir and it is the most
advanced APRS program I have ever used. Good job devs. I got Festival
working and that is just utterly amazing, it was so cool to hear my
messages
read off to me!
73's
Stephen
N1VLV
On 11/9/06, Darryl Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
What would be the best option based on what I want? Also, is there a
good
tutorial or reference that explains all these different types of maps
available?
I'm in the same position as you are, so I'll be following this thread
closely.
Curious, I have a copy of Street Atlas, can I extract map files from
that?
--
Darryl Gibson N2DIY
RLU X 182668/379552
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distinction of a free man from a slave." -- Andrew Fletcher, A
Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698)
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