[Xastir-dev] Latest dev release

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> Using the OGR library, we now have elevation labels for the USGS
> SDTS-format contour line files, plus colored TIGER/Line raw maps.
> Enjoy.
>
> We also have Shapefiles working in OGR.  If you enable the #ifdef
> near the top of maps.c you'll enable that feature, but weather
> alerts will get diverted to the old Shapelib code (so that they
> still work).
>
> The OGR code doesn't do many advanced things with labels, so you'll
> end up with too many labels as you zoom out.
>
> One nice thing though is that with the spatial filtering implemented
> in OGR, reading from the map files gets faster as you zoom in, just
> like the geotiff code.

Anyone tried the topo contours?  Any feedback?

Also try raw tiger files if you've installed GDAL and the latest CVS
Xastir.  I'd like feedback on how those maps look currently.  You
should get a reasonable looking map plus it should get faster as you
zoom in.

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