[Xastir] USGS DRG files no longer free..

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Tyler Allison wrote:

> yeah. All their files are using stateplane coordinate system. I held of
> trying to figure out the shapefile issues while trying to get the geoTIFF
> files to load.

There's a concise writeup on converting from state plane to lat/long
in README.MAPS.  You just need to figure out the FIPS code for your
area in order to do it.  The text explains where to look that up as
well.


> There's not much in the way of debug output when I try loading the tif
> with the debug level set to 16. It says something like: map load start, it
> spews a line of coordinates that match the output of listgeo, then map
> load stop. No graphic is displayed.
>
> I'll write up a little "what I did" so you can see my process, maybe Im
> skipping some steps or something.

It's likely that I'll have to try one of the geoTIFF files myself.
I probably have the best chance of gleaning clues from the output,
or adding better debug output so we can figure it out.

I have a fully working system here and at home that displays
geoTIFF's.  If I can display the maps, then we'll know to look at
how your libraries are set up in comparison to mine.

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