[Xastir] .shp vs poly.shp

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:19:02PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <hal at seanet.com> flavor, containing:
> The National Atlas files are free.  Most of them are in Shapefile 
> format, but some are TIFF images that would need georeferencing added.  
> Xastir apparently doesn't pick up GeoTIFF flags.

Some of the rasters are in GeoTIFF, but in projections that are unusable by 
xastir.  A quick "gdalwarp" operation makes them usable.  The shaded relief 
map of North America is in Lambert Equal Area, for example.

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