[Xastir] Cannot get tif file into Map Chooser

[Dan Brown]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Jack Reilly wrote:

> Date: 07 Dec 2004 11:44:35 -0800
> From: Jack Reilly <aa6vn at pacbell.net>
> To: Wes Johnston <wes at kd4rdb.com>
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Cannot get tif file into Map Chooser
> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 11:15, Wes Johnston wrote:
>> are you sure they are in the right folder?  I was recently burned by the
>> difference between /usr/local and usr/share/local .... do other maps in the
>> same directory show up also?
>>
>> Just ruling out the simple stuff....
>> Wes
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Jack Reilly <aa6vn at pacbell.net>:
>>
>>> After enjoying Xastir with Suse 8.2 for some time I decided it was time
>>> to use something besides on-line Tiger maps.
>>> I installed libproj and libgeotiff.
>>> I loaded a USGS topo map but have not been able to have it show in the
>>> map chooser. The files O37122H1.fgd  o37122h1.tif and o37122h1.tfw are
>>> in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps. I have reindexed but they will not
>>> appear in the Map Chooser. I have tried everything I can think of
>>> including eliminating the directories in the map list but the new files
>>> never show. Reindexing does nothing.
>>>
>>> I sure will appreciate some help.
>>>
>>> Jack  AA6VN
>>>
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>>
>
> I left the folders eliminated. /usr/local/share/xastir/maps presently
> holds:
> .   O37122H1.fgd  o37122h1.tif     tigermap.geo    xUSRadar.geo
       ^     ^       ^     ^

> ..  o37122h1.tfw  terraserver.geo  toposerver.geo
       ^     ^

I think Curt was suggesting you try making all of these O's and H's be
consistently either upper or lower case and see what happens.

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Dan Brown 
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