[Xastir] Problem with geotiff files

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 05:32:16PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <j_cox at swiftdsl.com.au> flavor, containing:
> Hi all,
> 	I am trying to setup geotiff files. I keep having problems with xastir
> reorting back:
> 
> *** geoTIFF file /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/south/newy.tif is not in
> the proper format.
> *** Please reformat it and try again.

This rather generic sounding error message actually means the file has either
more than one sample per pixel, something other than 8 bits per sample, 
or more than one plane.  Those aren't actually geotiff parameters, but tif 
parameters, so you need to use "tiffinfo" to see that.  

The only way to get those to display is to do some kind of conversion
so that they fit the parameters xastir needs, or to hack xastir
so it supports a wider range of tiff images.

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