[Xastir-dev] Gerry C: Canadian Topo Maps, what to do with them?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Curt Mills wrote:


> > Some older USGS DOQs were bil files.
>
> So ogr2ogr could convert them to geotiff that Xastir could handle?

I thought ogr2ogr was only for vector, and you needed e.g. gdal_translate
for raster. But, I did use gdal to convert all my DOQs to geotiff.

> That might be about the best option.  Actually, if they could be
> converted to a standard image file with a .geo, then people could
> handle them with ImageMagick alone, skipping
> libproj/libgeotiff/libgdal support.  Possible?  It seems that if
> they are a constant lat/long shift per pixel, we could do that.

Ew, I like my georeferencing embedded, the fewer files I need to keep in
sync, the better. But yes, I think they're linear.