[Xastir] a choice of formats

[Liz]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 07:20:57 -0700
Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks Tom
Yes, the arcview files are shown without complaint.
The data is still going to need massaging, nothing less useful than a
large number of crosses marked 'place name'.
I'll be waiting on assistance from my son to look at the data