[Xastir] Adding offline maps?

[Tom Robson, ve7did]

Just installed gdal from sources and noticed that during the Xastir configure 
process of 1.4, ImageMagick got blown away.  I did do a ./bootstrap.sh.  Is 
this normal before I proceed any further?  Doubt it..

...73 Tom


On September 13, 2004 10:39 am, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Tom Robson, ve7did wrote:
> > Are there some simple tools available for converting the MapInfo *.map
> > data? Where does one find them?
>
> Xastir can handle some of them directly now, if you install
> GDAL/OGR.  We have very limited support at present, but that'll
> change over time.
>
> You can also use the ogr2ogr command to convert between map formats.
> Not sure how well it works on any particular format, but it's worth
> a shot.
>
> OGR is a vector library, and is part of GDAL, which is a raster
> library.  No, I can't explain that either.
>
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