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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Gerry Creager (N5JXS) wrote:

> Getting in late on this one, sorry.  I tend to believe Derrick's right
> here.  I on't think you will be able to do BILs by glomming the header
> and making an arbitrary lat-lon referenced array.  I think the
> GDAL_translate solution will be the best approach.

It looked like the metadata mentioned a fixed lat/long offset per
pixel, so I was thinking of turning them into a GIF/JPG/PNG, etc, or
perhaps a geoTIFF.  Seems like they should be accurately
georeferenced that way.  Correct?

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