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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Joe Veldhuis wrote:

> 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?

It's likely that you'll be able to reproject them with open-source
tools.  I'll let Tom answer this one as it's right up his alley.

Do they still have the big white map border?

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