[Xastir] GeoPDF

[Lee Bengston]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know this came up a while ago.
>>
>> The USGS has been making historic topos available online, free. My
>> entire state suddenly showed up, so I got interested. They're GeoPDF.
>> Last we discussed it here, no support. That's fine: GDAL 0.8.0 and on
>> supports it. You need poppler with xpdf support, and then you can just
>> run gdal_translate.
>
> Looks like I'm going to need to compile GDAL from source in order to
> do a conversion to geotiff.  The version 1.6 binary in the Ubuntu
> 11.04 repository doesn't seem to recognize the GeoPDF format.  I'm not
> sure if I had the syntax right, but at least it appeared to try to
> open the map file.
>
> gdal_translate VA_Leesburg_20110624_TM_geo.pdf Leesburg.GTiff
>
> GDALOpen failed - 4
> `VA_Leesburg_20110624_TM_geo.pdf' not recognised as a supported file format.

Just saw on the gdal.org site that it takes version 1.8.0 or greater
not 0.8.0, so the Ubuntu version isn't going to cut it.

Lee