[Xastir] Adding offline maps?

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

I will try to look at some of this during the week while I'm parked in a 
hotel room.  GDAL works pretty quickly in some other apps I'm using.

gerry

Tom Robson, ve7did wrote:
> 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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