[Xastir] maps

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Gerry Creager wrote:

> Recall, however, that shapefiles can also include layer data within the 
> file: Different elements can have different attribributes.  Not all 
> shapefiles are organized as Roads or Lakes, Rivers and Waterways.

Perhaps, but all of the attributes must be described by the same dbf
file, with all the same columns.  Also the file has to be all one type,
be it points, polylines, or polygons (haven't investigated the 3d and
multipatch types yet).


> With a new computer in hand, I've got to get Xastir working here. 
> However, it's more getting the ancillary libs compiled and properly 
> placed, which I've gotta do for some other projects anyway, that is the 
> killer.  Xastir's almost always behaved nicely for me!

One of the reasons why the GDAL integration would be very nice for
us!  It would avoid having to compile in ImageMagick/libproj/
libgeotiff for the majority of people.

If we had GDAL and Shapelib integrated with our code and available
from CVS, updating could be as simple as doing three cvs updates,
and mostly guarantee that they'd all play together.  CVS Xastir would
likely be working with the CVS versions of the other libraries due to
Xastir developer activity.

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