[Xastir] Map creation help

[John Ronan]

Thanks for the offer, I have it working :) :) :) :) :) <- ei7ig 
(EI7IG-9 on findu is my car) is a happy camper as they say.

Of course once it was pointed out to me what I was doing wrong, it only 
took me a few minutes to fix it.

Thanks

John

On 22 Oct 2004, at 12:46, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Don't ask me about the problems associated with .wld files I had when 
> creating views for Hurricane Ivan's arrival, working in the middle of 
> a meeting,  via wireless, on less than no sleep and having to still 
> participate...
>
> You'll get the .geo right!
>
> If you want to post corner coord's and the .geo you have, I can help...
>
> gerry
>
> John Ronan wrote:
>> On 22 Oct 2004, at 01:40, Curt Mills wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, John Ronan wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've got a .tif file for a map that I know the edge co-ordinates 
>>>> for.
>>>> How in gods name do I get this to display?  It might be that I've 
>>>> had a
>>>> long day but I'm just not getting it (its 22:30 here).
>>>>
>>>> I have the .tif and I created an accompanying .fgd file.  with a 
>>>> WEST
>>>> BOUNDING COORDINATE etc etc. I've been googling for a while trying 
>>>> to
>>>> find an answer to my question and I'm getting nowhere fast. It took 
>>>> me
>>>> long enough to figure out how to convert from the Irish Grid System.
>>>
>>>
>>> If it's a TIFF file and not a geoTIFF file, then you're going about
>>> it in the wrong way.  Instead of creating a .fgd file to go with it,
>> Well theres a surprise :).. I've just read my email after a nights 
>> sleep and I'm surprised anyone replied, it is a bit incoherent
>>> use ImageMagick instead and create a .GEO file to go with it.  You
>>> just need a couple of tiepoints.  You can use "identify -ping
>>> filename" to find out the size of the file in pixels.
>> That returns
>> 4724x4724+0+0 PsuedoClass 256c 8 bit  2.1m 0.990u 0:02
>> heh.. now its in the wrong place.. :)  thats better than I had last 
>> night.
>> Thanking you kindly sir!
>> John
>>>
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