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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Patrick <kd7wpq@...>
Subject: [yaac-users] Map not populating

I did some digging around but not much.
Long story short I had been opening and closing YAAC a lot due to some troubleshooting I was doing.
At one point YAAC didn't even know my call sign anymore and even if I put it in and
followed the wizard it wouldn't save it.

Callsign-SSID are stored on the individual ports that send and receive APRS packets
(Serial_TNC, AGWPE, KISS-over-TCP, APRS-IS), not on YAAC as a whole. So, if you delete
those ports, you will delete the callsign settings associated with the ports.

So I deleted the YAAC folder and it's cache that I found in the java folder under
my user profile but now the map tiles aren't populating.

The files under the .java directory associated with YAAC is where the configuration data is stored for
YAAC. The YAAC folder (by default) will contain two subdirectories:
- logdir (which contains the log files for YAAC)
- tiledir (which contain all the raw map data files, both converted OpenStreetMap and topographic)
So, if you delete those subdirectories, you delete your map data, _unless_ you have reconfigured YAAC
to put the log directory and tile directory somewhere else (done on the General tab of the expert-mode
Configuration dialog). For example, I had a dual-boot laptop, so I put the tiledir on a partition accessible
both to Microsoft Windows and Linux, so I wouldn't have to have two copies of the map data.

So, if you deleted the tile directory, you would have deleted all your map data.

Any help getting the tiles to populate?

Re-download the data again. Assuming the place you have set in your configuration for the tile directory
location is actually accessible to the system and has free space, the map data will be stored in the
configured tile directory.

I tried downloading to Topographic tiles but that didn't help at all.

That's because topographic data is gridded Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED), not street information. It is
separately turned on in the View->Layers submenu to render topographic contour lines or color regions,
and is not enabled by default because it is slow to render and not useful for most users. Topographic data
is downloaded from the US Geological Survey website, and requires registering for a free account there
before you can download it.

Street information comes from OpenStreetMap, and has to be reprocessed to be efficiently rendered
in YAAC. Therefore, I suggest downloading the pre-imported map data from my website using the
File->OpenStreetMap->Download Pre-Imported Tiles menu choice. I have already gone through
the painful and time-consuming process of reprocessing the raw OpenStreetMap data into the
format YAAC uses, so you don't have to.

Is there a topo tiles folder separate from the java folder?

As stated above, the configured tiledir (which can be anywhere on your file system, but defaults to the
YAAC/tiledir subdirectory of your home directory) will contain both reprocessed OpenStreetMap data
and DTED data (whichever you have downloaded). If you reconfigure the location of this directory, it
will _not_ move all the data in the old directory to the new directory, so if you are going to use a
non-default location for this directory, set it before you start downloading the map data.

Hope this helps.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC

Thanks for the reply Andrew, that's a lot of information.

In short yes I deleted the old directory which loved the problem of it not remembering my station call sign.
The tiles directory is default as I am not dual booting nor have any reason to relocate the tiles.
I did already register for a nasa.gov account to download tiles and have input my username and password in when requested but it never did populate. I have 1 grid that is my specific grid that populated, the rest are blank.

Downloading Pre-Imported Tiles didn't do anything for me before and right now it's working on importing a BIG file that started yesterday and it's still working. It's a world file and I doubt I need that much coverage, good grief! LOL
But that is why I posted the massage. Maybe I should delete the folder again and see if it makes a difference and reset YAAC, after all it's not that hard to set back up.

And I'm using Linux