[Xastir] Problem with geotiff files

[Jason Cox]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 09:58, Tom Russo wrote:
> 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.
-- 

Thanks Tom,
	That solved the problem - I re-exported from global mapper and it 
pulled up the pics OK. It seamed to have a positional error in it the image 
positions as they don not line up with the mif/tab files. It is also slow so,
I might have had debug turned on in one of the lib's.
 Only question left is dose Xastir use GoeTiff from GDAL or direct to the libgeotiff ?

Thanks 
Jason Cox