On Sat, 12 May 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > I must say that the Online/Tiger2003 maps on a Mac > > look gorgeous! They have nice colors and complete > > fills (oceans that are all blue, as opposed to the Tiger > > 2006 oceans which only go about 3 miles off the coast). > > Is that because it's on a Mac or are the Tiger2003 maps > > just much better? Can I find out the settings used for the > > Tiger2003 maps? > > > > I guess my real question is how can I get the Tiger2006 > > maps to look like the Online/Tiger2003 maps? > > You can't really. The on-line tiger maps are rendered by a completely > different > engine on the web, and xastir can only approximate them.
However... You can go to Map->Configure->Background Color and set it to Steel Blue, which is what I often use. That way if there's no map that covers a particular area you get ocean color. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com 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
