[Xastir] Mapping

[Gerry Creager]

OGR supports MapInfo.  (Mapserver supports MapInfo .map/.tab format). 
I've not tried MapInfo maps... never even thought about doing that much, 
but MapInfo is *my* GIS package of choice on Windoze as I can do what I 
want faster there than with Arc* and can train someone better/faster 
than I can on ArcView to accomplish the same tasks ArcView will do.
gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> 
>> I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and
>> Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow use
>> that data as well if xastir supports it?
> 
> MapInfo is a GIS program, right?  If it's vector data then Xastir
> may support it.
> 
> This shows up when I start Xastir, with all of the map libraries
> enabled:
> 
> 
>   Built-in map types:
>         gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>          map   APRSdos Maps
>          map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>          pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
> 
>   Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>          geo   Image Map (ImageMagick library, many formats allowed)
>          geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
>          shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
>          tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
>          xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
>          tab   MapInfo TAB
>          mid   MapInfo MID
>          mif   MapInfo MIF
>          ddf   Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
>          rt1   US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
>          s57   International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57
>          dgn   MicroStation DGN
> 
> 
> "tab", "mid", and "mif" MapInfo types are listed as supported.  This
> may not mean "fully" supported, but you should be able to see the
> vectors on your screen.  It's whether labels are supported at all
> and how the lines look (color, width) that you many not have much
> control over.
> 
> Precision Mapping and Street Atlas are commercial map programs.  No,
> we don't and won't support snagging their maps.  Their license
> doesn't allow it.  Pretty much extend that statement to any
> commercial maps.  Luckily there are maps available for most places
> in various formats that we _can_ use.
> 
> That said, you _can_ use trails/routes/waypoints that National
> Geographic Topo users have submitted to the mapXchange site, but
> these are user-generated trails, not any of the topo maps
> themselves.  Anyone needing to extract the user data from Topo,
> please check out the latest-latest "gpsbabel" code.  It can extract
> from version 2.x/3.x/4.x now.
> 
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