[Xastir] Geotiff missing...???

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Mon Mar 5 09:12:37 EST 2007


On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Jim Shorney wrote:

> should be followed TO THE LETTER for everything to work.  The good news is
> that, after many hours of tinkering, everything on the ThinkPad appears to be
> working as it should (except GDAL, which I am a little bit afraid to
> install).  I had one minor glitch with libdb that was easily fixed.

Most people have no need for GDAL anyway.  It's more for those that
have access to real GIS software and/or maps.  In most of those
cases one can use "ogr2ogr" to convert to something Xastir can use,
skipping the necessity to have GDAL support in Xastir even then.

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