[Xastir] geoTiff "Problem in translation"

[John W. Palmieri]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, John W. Palmieri wrote:
>> I'm running xastir v1.2.1, proj v4.4.7, geoTiff v1.2.1,
>> and tiff v3.6.0. When I try to load the USGS DRG
>> geoTiff files, after running mapfgd.pl, I get the error
>> "Problem in translating" and it seems
>> GTIFProj4FromLatLong() is failing (see map_tif.c).

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> The GTIFProj4FromLatLong() calls end up calling the
> libproj (PROJ.4) library to actually do the translation
> work.  If you already have libproj installed, then most
> likely the problem is that you installed libgeotiff
> first, and then libproj.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> Recollection is proj library uses a file prj.def or
> somesuch to keep a table in. Use of your favorite system
> call tracewr to see if xastir is opening (or trying to)
> said file should tell you if libgeotiff was actually
> compiled with libproj support. My guess is it wasn't.


Thanks. You both were spot on.

Cheers,
John