[Xastir] FGD files and Re: bounding boxes

Curt Mills hacker at tc.fluke.com
Tue Oct 7 16:41:00 EDT 2003


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Curt Mills wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Tyler Allison wrote:
> >
> > > I think there's something more nefarious going on than getting the right
> > > lon/lat put together.  Im just not as familiar with geotiff as I need to
> > > be to figure it out.
> >
> > Don't have time to look back through the messages just now...  Were
> > you getting UTM numbers out of the geotiff file itself as well?
> >
> > If so, that's a problem also.  You could use the tools and replace
> > those tags with the lat/long equivalents...
>
> Look at the output of "listgeo" with your geoTIFF's and with an
> example geoTIFF from my site:
>
>     http://wetnet.net/~we7u/xastir/libgeotiff/

Should have been:

    http://wetnet.net/~we7u/xastir/maps/geotiff/


> If the types of numbers you get out of each look similar, you might
> have a chance.  If not, you'll have to massage the geoTIFF to look
> more like a USGS geoTIFF by stripping off the geotiff tags and
> adding new ones.

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