[Xastir] Using GeoPDF maps experience

[Floyd Rodgers]

Could you post the details of what you are doing and exactly how. I 
would like to pull down and convert a state or two.

On 12/20/2015 3:31 PM, ZPO wrote:
> Answered my own question..
>
> All the files are zipped. Once unzipped they will have names of the form
> "OR_Arlington_20140731_TM_geo.pdf".
>
> Now to let it work through a download of a few states.
>
> 73-KY9K/Brian
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:48 PM, ZPO <geekdownrange at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've figured out how to pull down a list of all the maps in a given state
>> as a CSV file. I've trimmed the CSV file down to just the download link and
>> have wget using it as an input file to download all the 7.5 minute maps for
>> my state.
>>
>> The only issue is that the filenames are "download?item_id=5992569"
>> (example) based on actual download link rather than the more friendly name
>> of the map. While I could redo things a bit to run an individual wget for
>> each file using the friendlier map name as the output filename, has anyone
>> else gone down this road before and found a clean and elegant way to work
>> around this?
>>
>> 73-KY9K/Brian
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> labels gets "too busy" and hard to read when zoomed down in a town for
>>> instance, just drop out the mapset you don't want to use at the moment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Xastir has a couple of tools to help with this.
>>>
>>> First are the display levels, so you don't display busy/detailed maps at
>>> higher levels. That's pretty easy, although you may need to play around a
>>> bit to get it just the way you like it.
>>>
>>> The other thing is editing the dbfawk if you're using a shapefile. You
>>> can cause labels to not display even though features are still there, and
>>> depending on the data available in the shapefile cause smaller features to
>>> drop out at higher zoom levels.  This requires a bit more work, but if you
>>> have a dbfawk to start with its certainly doable.
>>>
>>> -Jason
>>>
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