[Xastir] Maps and ImageMagick

[Richard Polivka]

Norm,

Greetings from the cold north side (-7 deg F). There
are two competing/forked packages: ImageMagick and
GraphicsMagick. Both packages are meant to be
stand-alone, command line "Swiss Army Knife" type of
programs for manipulating/massaging/mangling picture
files. GraphicsMagick may not do as much as
ImageMagick but I can say, at least on my machine, the
overhead using GM is far less.

I am running GraphicsMagick on BigBox to assemble the
NEXRAD animations that I plan to use for when the
severe spring/summer/fall weather comes calling. I
take the scan history from the National Weather
Service, layer the topo image and legend images with
the radar image in the middle. Once those are
assembled, I use GraphicsMagick to make an animated
GIF out of the processed pix. 

I am not exactly sure of where the package is used in
the processes but either one should work.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


--- "Norm, VK3XCI" <vk3xci at aanet.com.au> wrote:

> I'm a noob, be gentle!
> 
> 
> A Question for the cognoscenti. (The only dumb
> question is one you don't 
> ask!)
> 
> The solution to inf2geo.pl not running was the
> missing "identify" 
> routine/program (from ImageMagick)
> 
> I downloaded and installed said ImageMagic and now
> all is well!
> 
> the question is... did I need the whole package, or
> could the the 
> routine have been included at compile time... ie
> compiled in? I don't 
> have a great understanding of the compile process.
> 
> Both Xastir and ImageMagick came as binaries from
> the Ubuntu 
> repositories, maybe I should have compiled it
> myself?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> de VK3XCI
> Norm in Mildura, QF15bt
> Australia's Wintersun City
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