[Xastir] problem with shp files

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> I've converted some shape files from .e00 format but they complain about
> longitude and latitude out of range (too high).  Is there a magic trick I'm
> missing?  Sample at http://www.columbia.edu/~alan/xastir/bad

Are they in state plane coordinate system?  If so, you'll need to
use shpproj to convert them to lat/long.  See the Xastir docs for
details on that.

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