[Xastir] Weather alert shapes and Tiger maps.

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

The onlin tigermaps are a spherical projection; the NWS shapefiles are 
unprojected lat/lon.  We don't support a spherical reprojection via 
xastir at this time, more's the pity (THAT'S NOT A FEATUER REQUEST), 
because, among other things, it's a less than common projection format, 
proj4 isn't doing the reprojection and gdal isn't up to speed for us 
yet.  I know it's all on the list, but even as one of the resident 
geodesists (are there others on here?) I'm not concerned.

It's "just a hobby" (sm, copyleft).

73, gerry

Jim wrote:
> I just noticed that the weather alert shapes and the online tiger maps do
> not match. The further from the center the more off they are.
> Running latest CVS.
> 
> Jim, N5ZXD
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