[Xastir] Setup.

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Mon Jan 19 16:15:01 EST 2004


On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:

> As Xastir gains more GIS functionality and continues to gain more
> international users support for more datums and coordinate systems is
> going to become more important.

Did I mention that the OGR stuff in the Xastir GDAL/OGR support will
auto-convert the datum if it's not in NAD83 or WGS84?  ;-)

Of course if your Shapefile dataset doesn't include a .prj file,
Xastir just assumes it's WGS84 and continues on...

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