[Xastir] Adding offline maps?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, 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?

No, dbfawk doesn't work with it.  It might be useful to extend
dbfawk so that it works with all of the vector types.

The GDAL & OGR stuff hasn't been optimized yet.  In fact, it hasn't
even been completed yet.  Right now what you see is all you're going
to get until we put more time in to integrate those libraries.  So
much to do, so little time...

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