[Xastir] How can I use SA captures from UI-View in Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:37:48AM +0000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kc4zgq at hotmail.com> flavor, containing:
> How can I use maps captured from Street Atlas using UI-View in Xastir?
> 
> The capture process creates an *.inf file with coordinates for a given map 
> of the same name that is captured as a GIF, or PNG file.  If these can be 
> used it would provide a very simple way to create useful maps that are very 
> quick to load.  If it can be integrated with the range scale function it 
> could simulate zoomable maps nicely.  This could be a good way to support 
> lower end machines and those without full-time connections.
> 
> This link will provide samples of the maps and *.INF file.
> 
> http://www.kc4zgq.com/ga1.zip

In the xastir scripts directory (subdirectory "scripts" of the source code,
or installed directory ${prefix}/lib/xastir) there is a perl script called
"inf2geo.pl" that can take the .inf file from UI view and produce a .geo
file that xastir can use.

In the case of the zip file you provided, though, some of the .infs wouldn't 
convert.  In each case I tried, the script expected to find an image file with a
name matching the thing on the third line of the inf file, but there was
no corresponding image.  E.g., your file "SE Georgia map.INF" contained:

  33.10.64N,84.04.48W
  31.11.39N,80.57.05W
  SE Georgia map

but there was no "SE Georgia map.png"  

The file GAcoast.INF worked as long as I downcased the file extensions.  Unix
utilities tend to be case sensitive, and inf2geo is always looking for 
".png" rather than ".PNG"  When I ran inf2geo on this file I got a .geo file
that I was able to copy, with the .png file, into my xastir maps directory
and use as is.  It looks quite nice.

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