[Xastir] Setup.

[Brian D Heaton]

Gerry,

	Yep on both counts.  I still have nasty flashbacks to a Homeland
Defense project I did with consolidating a bunch of GIS data from
various entities.  The majority of it was shapefiles.  Four or five of
the agencies that provided them actually had no idea what datum they
were in.

			THX/BDH


On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:45, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> Virtually *ALL* the .e00 files can be converted to .shp: .e00 is the 
> ESRI Exchange Format.  If GDAL is up and working, then, yes, 
> libproj/proj4 can be bypassed.  Otherwise, you're stuck with all sorts 
> of interesting possibilities for .shp projection formats: Shapefiles 
> don't tell you what projection they're in natively.
> 
> gerry
> 
> Brian D Heaton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 12:23, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> > 
> >>If he's not in the U.S., he may not have much of a need for the
> >>libgeotiff stuff anyway.  There may not be any maps available for
> >>the area.
> >>
> >>I'd suggest Shapelib and ImageMagick only.  Skip the libproj/
> >>libgeotiff/ libgdal stuff for now unless specific maps that those
> >>libraries support are needed.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I wasn't 100% sure whether or not proj was needed for the UI-View maps. 
> > I did a quick search and found some E00 format maps that could be
> > converted over to shape files.  Everything else looks like commercial
> > data.
> > 
> > 			THX/BDH
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Curt, WE7U			    archer at eskimo dot com
> >>Arlington, WA, USA		http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> >>"Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> >>"Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> >>"The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
> >>
> >>
> > 
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