[Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

[Gerry Creager]

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> I'm about to embark on a bit of mapserver work, and this is likely as good a
>> time as any to learn how to tile in gdal.
> 
> Just so you and Steve are aware of this, a bit more Toporama stuff:
> 
> Tom Tessier said this:
> 
>> "... I found errors in their maps designations on Elesmere Island."
> 
> So if you're working in the Toporama maps in the future, check in
> that area for inconsistencies.

Noted, I'll look but since I pronounce "Eh?!" with a Texas Drawl, I may 
not notice the problem!

> Ok, next subject:
> 
> What Gerry just said about GDAL brings up another question or two:
> Does MapServer use GDAL internally (I think so), or are you thinking
> of figuring out how to tile maps with GDAL for Xastir purposes?  If
> the latter, remember that we have ZERO support for GDAL raster maps
> in Xastir at this point, we only have _some_ OGR (vector) support
> written.

gdal is used internally.  You use the support programs to tile a larger 
map-set or image into something workable, but after that Mapserver does 
the heavy lifting.

gerry
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