[Xastir] Adding offline maps?

[Tom Robson, ve7did]

GDAL was able to read the mapinfo files directly, but limited data is 
displayed and it is really sloooooooooow.  What takes about 7 secs with a 
shapefile of a given small (range scale of 400 meters) area takes about 15 
minutes with gdal.  Streets and topo contours show up but that is it.
I know very little about this complex map stuff, so I'll just leave it for a 
while.  I guess dbfawk doesn't work with this format does 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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