[Xastir] Maps

[Ray Wells]

Curt, WE7U wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ray Wells wrote:
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>>I've just recompiled gdal to include ecw support but I can't figure out
>>how ecw format maps invoked in xastir?
>>
>>gdalinfo --formats now reports ecw support so it would seem that part of
>>proceedings is now up to scratch.
>>    
>>
>
>We don't support everything that GDAL can do.  In fact, we don't
>support any raster formats via GDAL, and only a few of the vector
>formats.  Here's the current list out of xastir/src/gdal.c:
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>        if (strstr(drv_name,"Shapefile")) {
>#ifdef GDAL_SHAPEFILES
>            fprintf(stderr,"       shp   ESRI Shapefile (via GDAL)\n");
>#endif  // GDAL_SHAPEFILES
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"NTF")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"SDTS")) {
>            fprintf(stderr,"       ddf   Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)\n");
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"TIGER")) {
>            fprintf(stderr,"       rt1   US Census Bureau TIGER/Line\n");
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"S57")) {
>            fprintf(stderr,"       s57   International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57\n");
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"MapInfo")) {
>            fprintf(stderr,"       tab   MapInfo TAB\n");
>            fprintf(stderr,"       mid   MapInfo MID\n");
>            fprintf(stderr,"       mif   MapInfo MIF\n");
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"DGN")) {
>            fprintf(stderr,"       dgn   MicroStation DGN\n");
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"VRT")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"AVCBin")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"REC")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"Memory")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"GML")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>        else if (strstr(drv_name,"PostgreSQL")) {
>            // Not enabled in Xastir yet
>        }
>----------------------------------------------------
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>
>Anything not listed isn't supported either.
>
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>Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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Thanks Curt,

I wasn't aware that not all of GDAL was supported.

Looks like I'll stick to converting from ecw to jpg, which is no great 
drama, the jpg's are working fine. Just thought I could avoid a step in 
the process.

Ray vk2tv