[Xastir] Unable to open GeoTiff.

[Lee Bengston]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

It definitely did stay broken for quite a while. You're original report had
"8.04" in the subject, and I'm fairly sure it stayed broken through Ubuntu
9.10.

Last week I updated the Wiki, which until then didn't have a HowTo for
compiling Xastir in Ubuntu 10.10.  In converting to 10.10 from 10.04, I left
out the mod to the repositories to grab the alternate versions of proj and
geotiff with the understanding that it wasn't needed any more.

Regarding the geotiff issue that started this thread, I downloaded one of
the Washington state topo maps from the referenced website - one of the
files from the set labeled 'Yakima', and it displayed fine.  This is on a
Lubuntu 10.10 installation with Xastir compiled per the Wiki.

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT