I am having a lot of issues trying to get xastir running under Fedora 9 on a Thinkpad where xastir ran fine under Fedora 7. I'm also trying to have this working by Saturday morning for an event. I've given up on getting online maps working since there seems to be some bug with those as also experienced by others. Instead I downloaded shapefile maps for one Texas county, but xastir does not seem to recognize them. Hopefully I am just installing them incorrectly. On startup xastir says it supports shapefile maps:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# xastir Built-in map types: gnis USGS GNIS Datapoints map APRSdos Maps map WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps pdb PocketAPRS Maps Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats allowed) geo URL (Internet maps via libcurl library) shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library) tif USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj) xpm X Pixmap Maps (XPM library) festival_client: connect to server failed SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival Indexing maps... Finished indexing maps *** Reading WX Alert log files *** Done with WX Alert log files I downloaded the Texas county shapefile maps from Texas A&M as referenced in the xastir map wiki, then extracted and installed the county of interest in my map directory as shown in this recursive directory listing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] maps]# ls -R .: GPS Online TX_Polygons TX_Polylines worldhi.map ./GPS: placeholder ./Online: CanadaTopo250k.geo terraserver-reflectivity.geo tigermap.geo WMSRadar.geo CanadaTopo50k.geo terraserver-topo.geo TXRadar.geo terraserver.geo terraserver-urban.geo USRadar.geo ./TX_Polygons: Bell_County.dbf Bell_County.shp Bell_County.shx ./TX_Polylines: Bell_County.dbf Bell_County.prj Bell_County.shp Bell_County.shx TX_Polyogns and TXPolylines show up as directories in the map chooser dialog, but none of the maps within those directories show up. Do I have to do something else to use shapefiles? Thanks for any help at this late moment. 73 -- John _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir