[Xastir] Unable to open GeoTiff.

[jd at jdwallace.com]

Thanks everyone for the help. I completely restored with the new version of the wiki article and all is working now.

Thanks,
JD

On Feb 23, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:

> 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
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