[Xastir] Re: World shapefile map

[Brian D Heaton]

Additional Note for DRGs - Proj must be built with NAD27 support (an
additional tgz to unpack within the Proj4 distribution directory).  I
beat my head on this one for a few days before Curt set me straight.

			THX/BDH


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:28, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Wilbert Knol wrote:
> > 
> > > So, for the world shapefile map, I *do* need tiger.geo ?
> > > (Not "tigermap.geo" as per below??)
> > 
> > Sorry, "tigermap.geo".  It's in your "xastir" source directory if
> > you've updated CVS recently.
> 
> I have trouble keeping track of multiple questions regarding multiple
> subjects when the e-mail QSO ends up lasting multiple days.  I
> usually don't have time to go back and read an entire thread, so I
> get you mixed up with other simultaneous QSO's with other people.
> 
> For a Shapefile map, you need Shapelib compiled in.  Period.  Each
> map consists of three or more files.  Xastir requires the .shp, .shx,
> and .dbf files.
> 
> For Tigermap/Terraserver/Toposerver, you need wget or libcurl, plus
> ImageMagick, plus whatever ImageMagick requires (that can change
> drastically).  For other .geo files, skip the wget/libcurl
> requirement unless you're using the map files directly off the 'net.
> 
> For DRG topo maps, you need libtiff/libproj/libgeotiff compiled in.
> We require the .tif and the .fgd files out of the set.  You can fake
> a .fgd file though if required, or use one of our scripts to create
> enough of them for Xastir to use.
> 
> Most of the other map types we support are supported with basic
> Xastir directly, no other libs required.  One exception would be
> XPM, but most Unix and Unix-like systems have the XPM libraries.
> 
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
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