[Xastir] Weather alert shapes and Tiger maps.

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> 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.

Also:  The Tigermaps aren't that accurate to begin with.  If you
overlay other maps on them you'll find that something ain't right
when zoomed way in either.  That's not the problem you're describing,
but I think people should be made aware of that as well.

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