[Xastir] a choice of formats

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 07:13:59PM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <edodd at billiau.net> flavor, containing:
> I've got a choice of formats for CC licensed maps from Geoscience
> Australia.
> My advisor is on shift at present so can anyone advise which of the
> following freely available formats would be best to download?
> 
>  ArcView shape file, May be imported into MapInfo, 1.58MB

You will have to work on a "dbfawk" file to tell Xastir how to render the
lines, but this is the only format you listed that Xastir supports directly.

All of the other formats will have to be massaged into something else to get
Xastir to read it.

A long time ago, there was an effort to get GDAL support into Xastir, and
if that were completed then almost all the formats you listed would be 
supported.  But it was not completed.

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