[Xastir] DRGs in Mac OS X xastir 1.3.1

[Jason Winningham]

Hello all, first time on the list, and of course I have a problem:

I'm using xastir 1.3.1 on Mac os X 10.3 (Panther) and having trouble 
getting DRGs to work.  Specifically, every time I try to load one, I 
get the following message in the xterm where xastir was kicked off:

TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, 
/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/al-DRGs/o34086d8.tif: unknown field with 
tag 33918 (0x847e) encountered.
Problem in translating
Problem in translating
Problem in translating
Problem in translating

I need maps in north Alabama, which means the authority for DRGs in my 
area (Tennessee River Valley) is TVA, not USGS.  Are the maps I get 
from TVA different from the USGS standard DRG?

Can someone point me to DRGs that are known to work (especially on a 
Mac os X port) so I can test my build of xastir, et al?

Version numbers of other software that may be relevant: libgeotiff 
1.2.1, libtiff 3.6.1

I believe I have xastir configure with the support packed I need to 
pull this off.  configure tells me:

===========================================
xastir 1.3.1 has been configured using the
following external libraries.


Building with AX25.......... : no
Building with Festival...... : no
Building with GPSMan........ : no
Building with ShapeLib...... : yes
Building with ImageMagick... : yes
Building with libproj....... : yes
Building with GeoTiff....... : yes
Building with GDAL/OGR...... : no
Building with pcre.......... : yes
Building with dbfawk........ : no

xastir will be installed in /usr/local/bin.



The online map servers aren't terribly helpful in my case, because we 
are chasing a balloon, and online maps don't work in a mobile 
application. ):  It would be nice if the option existed to save the 
online maps for offline use.  Maybe the tiger code could drop a little 
"map.geo" file in the .xastir/tmp directory with "map.gif" os it could 
be saved for later use? (:


thanks,
Jason
  kg4wsv
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Jason Winningham
Computer Systems Engineer
College of Engineering
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
http://support.eng.uah.edu/	http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw