[Xastir] DRG's not cropping white space

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Fri Oct 9 12:06:08 EDT 2009


On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Tom Russo wrote:

> I pointed out several months ago that Ubuntu (and all Debian variants) have
> a version of proj.4 in their repositories that was improperly built withoug
> NAD27/NAD83 datum conversion grids, so I've been recommending that anyone
> who uses proj.4 for anything other than Xastir should build it from source
> instead.  This is not necessary for Xastir, because Xastir doesn't use
> proj.4 for datum conversions,

Except for the corner cut-points for cropping off the white borders
for geoTIFF's.  That's the only thing Xastir uses it for, via
libgeotiff calls.

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