[Xastir] topo maps

[Matt Werner]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
To: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] topo maps


> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Matt Werner wrote:
>
> > Ok.  I've checked out the first link but it pretty much just leads me to
the
> > second link.  The second link, the deli, has a lot of 24k DRG maps, but
> > without the collar.  From what I can learn, it appears that the collar
> > contains the coordinates of the map.
> >
> > I've tried the mapfgd.pl script (mapfgd.pl
> > /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/topo/mn/*) and while it doesn't return any
> > errors, it also doesn't generate any .fgd files.  Xastir sees my .tif
files
> > in the map chooser but won't load the maps.
>
> are they named e.g. o48098a1.tif and such? if not, mapfgd is useless,
> unless you give them their correct names, which you *can* do.

No, one example name would be drgncimq2041.tif.  How do I go about making
them usable?  I would really like to get these to work as they are a free
source of DRGs covering the entire state, and the only free source I have
found...