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Hi folks,<br><br>I know I must be doing something brainless here, but I can't seem to get a new installation of XASTIR to load up anything by way of a map. All I have is the background grid with an "x" in the center where my station is.<br><br>I gave an APRS presentation on somewhat short notice last week to a local club, leveraging heavily from Bob's presentation (http://www.aprs.org/APRS-by-Bob-j.ppt; THANKS Bob!). I thought it would be good to have XASTIR loaded on my laptop, for a little hands-on at the end. The software loaded with no problem, but no maps. The presentation went well without it, but I still want to get the maps to work.<br><br>My laptop is running OpenSuSE 11.1, and XASTIR is version 1.9.2-15.16, downloaded from the OpenSUSE Build Service. I'm not sure what it was "built with", but presumably the build service didn't hold anything back. The Help->About screen seems to show all the same libraries, with ImageMagick exchanged with GraphicsMagick.<br><br>I simply want to get the web-based Tiger maps to load. I've got "enable Auto maps" selected in the map menu. I went to the "Map Chooser" menu item, and fussed around with it. Both "GPS" and "Online" are selected, I believe, as the title bar says "maps selected 2/0". The "0" part is a little unnerving, and I can't seem to get any sort of directory list, like my other installation has. (And, no, I don't recall how I got it to work, either.). I do have an active network connection.<br><br>What else do I need to do? What's the simple recipe for getting maps to work?<br><br>Greg KO6TH<br><br><br /><hr />Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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