[Xastir] GeoPDF

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:16:29PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 01:08:47PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Tom Russo wrote:
> > 
> > > This is better than just generating an FGD for the thing, because it'll mean
> > > less work (and therefore faster map loads) for Xastir every time you display
> > > it.
> > 
> > Sweet...  Thanks Tom!
> 
> Sigh... don't thank me yet, and don't bother using the script yet.  Somehow
> the final step is producing a tiff file that gets a complaint from Xastir
> about the compression not supporting random access, even though I'm using
> PACKBITS exactly the same as USGS GeoTiffs use.  Got some more work to do.
> 
> Could just turn off compression, but that seems such a waste.

But in the interests of getting something that works into the hands of users,
that's just what I did.  It's a puzzlement I can't deal with right now.  Try
it now.

The resulting images will be slightly larger than necessary, but not by much.
I'm not sure PACKBITS really compresses all that much.

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