[Xastir] DRG's not cropping white space

Nick nwsnowboarder at verizon.net
Thu Oct 8 17:05:26 EDT 2009


With my luck and compiling, is there a newer version for download that  
I can pluck into VMware?  I'll have to check when I get home.



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On Oct 8, 2009, at 13:12, "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Nick wrote:
>
>> I have loaded the TIF and FGD files in the maps folder, but the  
>> white space around the maps are not getting cropped out.
>>
>> At first I loaded just the TIF and FGD files as per the readme  
>> file, white space was present.  I deleted those files, then loaded  
>> the complete file folder, i.e. 47122, with all the other associated  
>> data in those folder (they are a map set that Curt originally gave  
>> me 2 years ago).
>>
>> I use to be on Xastir 1.7 in MacOSX, now I am on Xastir Hardy  
>> 090307 running on Xubuntu
>>
>> When I was using 1.7,  I dropped the whole folder, i.e. 47122, into  
>> the maps folder and there were no cropping issues.
>
> Xastir uses only the .TIF and the .FGD files, so you're good there.
>
> Perhaps you have the libgeotiff library compiled without the Proj.4
> support?
>
> You must install Proj.4 first, then compile libgeotiff with proj.4
> support, then compile Xastir with libgeotiff + proj.4 support.  Fun
> eh?
>
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