[Xastir] US Topo GeoPDF?

Fred Hillhouse fmhillhouse at comcast.net
Mon Mar 19 17:22:31 EDT 2012


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[mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Tom Hayward
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 15:13
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] US Topo GeoPDF?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:56, Fred Hillhouse <fmhillhouse at comcast.net>
wrote:
> In this case, the address is Z/Y/X rather than Z/X/Y. Another issue, 
> besides addressing, the tile is a JPG rather than a PNG.
>
> Using OSM, here is a tile address, Z/X/Y:
> http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/12/1236/1513.png
>
> Using ArcGIS, it would be this tile, Z/Y/X:
> http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/Ma
> pServe
> r/tile/12/1513/1236
>
> Notice X and Y are in opposite places? They are the same values, just 
> reordered.

Thanks. Yeah, I actually noticed the X and Y were swapped about 30 minutes
ago, and being a better sysadmin than developer, I set up a rewriting proxy
to serve the tiles for me.

http://i.imgur.com/CNgGz.jpg

It's a good proof-of-concept. I'd like a config option in the geo file to
tell it to use Z/Y/X rather than OSM's Z/X/Y...but I don't know how to add
that.

Tom KD7LXL
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