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I've had a hard time obtaining Canadian maps for xastir ([[APRS]] software for [[UBO]]s). The Natural Resources Canada department provides topo maps for free, [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map from the Atlas Of Canada site]
I've had a hard time obtaining Canadian maps for xastir ([[APRS]] software for [[UBO]]s). The Natural Resources Canada department provides topo maps for free, [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map from the Atlas Of Canada site]


There are scripts that come with xastir that will download and geo reference these for you. Both toporama50k.pl and toporama250k.pl scripts come with xastir, you might have to [[locate]] them on your machine.
The maps usually live in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and have subdirectories that reflect the areas of interest.   
 
If you have xastir, the download scripts are included.  The maps usually live in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and have subdirectories that relefect the areas of interest.   
The official documentation suggests:
The official documentation suggests:


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     Overlay/
     Overlay/


To do a download of the files from NRCAN, navigate to the top level directory of interest and then execute the perl script $XASTIR_ROOT/scripts/toporama250k.pl  
To do a download of the Canadian maps from NRCAN, navigate to the top level directory of interest and then execute the perl scripts that are included with xastir:   
If you haven't set $XASTIR_ROOT then you should just type in the path to where it is installed.  The customary install  path is /usr/local/xastir-I think!  I'll check and and re-edit.
$XASTIR_ROOT/scripts/toporama250k.pl
$XASTIR_ROOT/scripts/toporama50k.pl
If you haven't set $XASTIR_ROOT then you should just type in the [[$PATH]] to where it is installed.  If you're not sure where it is, you can try to [[locate]] it.
 
 
[http://www.xastir.org/ Official xastir website]

Latest revision as of 21:02, 1 August 2007

I've had a hard time obtaining Canadian maps for xastir (APRS software for UBOs). The Natural Resources Canada department provides topo maps for free, from the Atlas Of Canada site

The maps usually live in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and have subdirectories that reflect the areas of interest. The official documentation suggests:

World/
 Canada/
  Canada/Province/
 USA/
  USA/State/WA/
   USA/State/WA/County/
   ...
   GNIS/
   Overlay/

To do a download of the Canadian maps from NRCAN, navigate to the top level directory of interest and then execute the perl scripts that are included with xastir:

$XASTIR_ROOT/scripts/toporama250k.pl 
$XASTIR_ROOT/scripts/toporama50k.pl

If you haven't set $XASTIR_ROOT then you should just type in the $PATH to where it is installed. If you're not sure where it is, you can try to locate it.


Official xastir website