[Xastir-Dev] Map at startup

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:

> I like this.. GREAT!
>
> Built-in map types:
>       gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>        map   APRSdos Maps
>        map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>        pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
>
> Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>        geo   Image Map (ImageMagick library, many formats allowed)
>        geo   URL (Internet maps via wget)
>        shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
>        tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
>        xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)

I'm expecting Jack to hijack that text and plop it onto the
Help->About screen (or similar) eventually, so that text will
probably disappear from STDERR at that time.

You should see the list you get if you install the GDAL/OGR
libraries!  Not that we can use those libraries yet, but we should
be able to eventually.  People are working on it.

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