[Xastir] Maps

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:02:44PM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> flavor, containing:
>  I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out how 
>  ecw format maps invoked in xastir?

They can't.

ECW maps are rasters.  Nobody has ever written the code necessary to use
GDAL to read and display rasters.

The only thing Xastir does with GDAL uses the OGR part of the library to 
display vectors.

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