[Xastir] Datum conversions

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:31:50PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, James Ewen wrote:
> 
> > It looks like GPSMan would do the conversion, however it won't run on Cygwin
> > from what I've read. It looks like I might be able to find Windows based
> > software to do the job as well.
> 
> GPSMan might be able to run on Windows directly.  It's written in
> tcl/tk as I recall.  gpsmanshp might not compile on anything except
> Cygwin though.  

ITYM "might compile on anything except"

> I think it's in C.  Would have to go look at the
> stuff again to be sure.

Yes, it's in C.  Creates a shared library that gpsman can read in and use
for import/export of shapefiles --- basically a wrapper for libshp.  The
makefile is set up to generate shared libraries on unix-type systems, but
I doubt it'd work properly as is for cygwin dlls.

The gpsmanshp distribution is just one C file and a set of tweaks to the 
tcl/tk setup (so it looks for gpsmanshp.so).

And as of last night this is all moot --- both gpsman and gpsmanshp are
on a web site that is returning 403 Forbidden.  Google's cache shows it
was still working as of 9 Dec, but it's MIA right now.

I dropped a line to the author about that.  It didn't bounce, so perhaps
he'll fix that or let me know why it's not available. 

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