[Xastir] DRG reprojection: can anyone make sense of this?

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:29:53AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electrode at garandnet.net> flavor, containing:
> As I posted earlier, I've been in search of 100/250k topo DRGs for Michigan and some of the surrounding areas. I finally came across a source, but the files are apparently in a projection that Xastir doesn't support. They show up in the map list but don't render...
> 
> The site that linked to this source provided this info:
> http://home.pacbell.net/lgalvin/MichGRF2UTM.html
> 
> Unfortunately, it makes reference to "Erdas ViewFinder", a Windows app that does not seem to exist anymore. Can anyone read this and tell me how this can be done using stuff I'm likely to be able to get?

Use "gdalwarp", part of the GDAL suite.  Look in README.MAPS (the file in
/usr/local/share/doc/xastir) for some examples of usage.

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