[Xastir] Tutorial?

[Skyler F]

Can you link me to which guide you used to install xastir?

The reason your Open street maps is not working might be as simple as the
wrong graphics plugin installed

(graphicksmagick vs imagemagick)

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:55 PM, David Flood <davidf4 at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Yup, the MAPS HOWTO probably needs a rewrite...perhaps one of these days
> when I can exercise Amateur Time Units while at my real job if someone else
> doesn't get there first..
>
> Let's start with the simplest possible cause...missing helper apps...
>
> What OS or Distribution of Linux (and version #) are you using?
>
> Are you using a version of Xastir supplied by that Distribution or did you
> compile from CVS?
>
> When Xastir starts up, it reports what map formats it knows how to handle.
> If you're using an icon to launch Xastir, you can get a similar but less
> informative list from Help / About on the "libraries used" line...
>
> Help / About will also give you the version number of Xastir..
>
>
> That info will help tell us if it has the helpers to handle other map
> formats including your existing map...
>
> Dave
> KD7MYC
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Mike M
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 5:49 PM
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> Subject: [Xastir] Tutorial?
>
> I'm about ready to jump off a bridge.  I get ham radio is all about
> learning, but this whole map deal makes me want to give up the hobby.
>
> I am about at hour 5 of playing around with xastir and still have nothing
> but the default (and useless) world map.  None of the built in online maps
> work.
>
> After lots of hair pulling I find out that the OSM map server has long
> since
> disappeared.  2 hours wasted trying to figure out why it was saying it was
> loading tiles but no tiles ever ended up in the cache.
>
> I have an osm map file I use with aprsdroid of the whole US.  I thought I
> could use this file.  45 minutes googling and searching the file system to
> figure out where to put it (every site I went to told me something
> different, and where it actually was wasn't any of them), dumped the .map
> file in there, reindexed and the map does not appear in the list.  The
> folder I put it in does, but not the map.  Does xastir not support these
> types of files?
>
> Is there an up to date tutorial on how to get maps working?
>
> Thanks
> -Mike
> KF7MBK
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