[Xastir-Dev] Making geo maps fit the world.

Curt Mills, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Mon Sep 29 00:18:47 EDT 2003


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:

> How does one adjust for the curve of the eath.
> Is there a tag or formula ?

With Xastir, you don't.  We assume rectangular maps.  Sorry.

About the only thing you could do right now would be to preprocess
the image into a rectangle so that Xastir could use it.  Exactly how
to do that properly is yet another question.

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