[Xastir] Wish see UI-VIEW MAPS

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

And they don't worry much about projection, or datum... either.

They're cute, but why can't UI-View convert to .geo?

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Brenda (Wallace) O'Hagan wrote:
> 
> 
>>wouldn't it be rather cool if we didn't need to convert?
>>perhaps if xastir read the .inf "natively"
> 
> 
> But where's the fun in that?  ;-)
> 
> Yea, it could be done, and probably relatively easily.  One problem
> is that they don't pay a lot of attention to case, so you might have
> to do a case-insensitive file lookup to figure out what the original
> intent was.  Some people have also been a bit sloppy with how they
> type in the coordinates.  Not insurmountable problems to code
> around, but things to be aware of.
> 
> Anyone with coding experience is welcome to submit a patch to add
> this capability!  I don't have much of a need for it myself, or I
> might have already coded it by now.
> 

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