[Xastir] A good question

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Texas has "enhanced" DRGs in MrSid.  We had some issues with storage 
space, hopefully being alleviated, which led them to use MrSid for 
compression.

There's a national Metadata standard.  Part of it requires precious 
little data to be actually entered.  I'm thinking that, when we get 
around to using an SQL database, we could start thinking of adding 
standards-compliant (such as it is) metadata therein, and have a lot of 
the required stuff for maps, registered images, etc.

gerry

Brian Heaton wrote:
> Curt/Jack,
> 
> 	The only problem I've seen with DRGs is the wide variation of included
> files from the various online sources. Most states I've looked include
> some type of file with the Xastir required metadata.  The difficulty
> (from the perspective of writing a "painfully explicit" document is the
> varying filenames.  I don't see it as a big deal, but it could be
> confusing to some users. I can give it a whirl and see what ya'll think.
> 
> 	I don't recall which state at the moment, but I know I've hit at least
> one that has its 1:24k DRGs online in MrSid format. That was a definite
> turnoff for me.
> 
> 			THX/BDH
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 01:23, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I doubt the user community would complain if someone made a painfully
>>>explicit detailed walk-through of exactly where to get what files and
>>>how to make them work under Xastir.  Especially if they were to use
>>>DOQ's, DRG's, etc.
>>
>>True.  Care to write it?  I'd be happy to add to it if someone were
>>to take a stab at it.  That might be a good thing to put into the
>>document area on SourceForge, or we could add another file to the
>>distribution.
>>
>>I was thinking about doing a particularly painful writeup on how to
>>get Xastir running under Windows, perhaps even going so far as to
>>provide a zip file that would give them compiled Xastir in one shot,
>>setting up everything for them.
>>
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