[Xastir] Unable to open GeoTiff.

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:21:22PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the Ubuntu wiki instructions give working GeoTIFF, as well as properly
> > built proj.4 libraries (because the official debian and ubuntu repositories
> > continue to provide a broken one).
> >
> > Is the proj.4 package still broken?  Below is a repeat of the little test
> that was sent in the original message to the list that reported the problem
> in Lubuntu 10.10:
> 
> lee at lubuntu:~$ cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 +to +proj=latlong
> +datum=NAD27
> 
> Give it the following input:
> 
> 106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N
> 
> With the above input, I get the following output:
> 
> 106d38'15.843"W    35d15'39.993"N -0.000
> 
>  I thought the broken version resulted in the same coordinates in the output
> that were in the input.  This one appears to be correct, and it was
> installed directly from the Ubuntu repositories.  Also, fyi, I got the same
> results in Ubuntu 10.04 using the standard Ubuntu proj package.

I stand corrected.  It had remained broken for so many releases that I simply
concluded that nobody was maintaining it.

I always side-step the issue by using the ubuntugis repositories, because it
is maintained by people who use GIS and rely on it to be correct.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
 "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."