[Xastir] Segfault on indexing maps

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 07:02:50AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <edodd at billiau.net> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:34:54 -0500
> Steve Rogers <kd5mkv at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here is a link for a Debian Squeeze binary xastir-2.0.1
> > http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Debian_Squeeze_Binary 
> >  
> > steve kd5mkv
> > 
> Thanks Steve, Tom, Curt, Lee
> I installed this suggestion from Steve, which used some older libraries
> than I had installed but does work, so it does download online stuff as
> well as show the .MAP files from Au APRS site.
> 
> Now I can see the errors for the GeoTiffs 
> 
> *** geoTIFF file /usr/share/xastir/maps/tif/8231s.tif is not in the
> proper format: ***** Has 3 samples per pixel instead of 1
> *** Please reformat it and try again.
> 
> 
> so I will pass the info onto the GIS trained offspring (a surveyor) so
> that he can polish up the GeoTiffs. They are the only maps with
> sufficient detail for next week's balloon exercise
> http://wotzup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/UpLift-2-Flight-Prediction.png

FWIW, the limitations of what Xastir can use for GeoTIFFs and how to rework 
unusable GeoTIFFs to be usable with Xastir are described in the README.MAPS 
file.  This file should be installed in /usr/share/doc/xastir by a binary 
package, or in /usr/local/share/doc/xastir for a source install.

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