[Xastir] a choice of formats

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 08:36:01AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> flavor, containing:
> Liz,
> 
> Just checking my map archives and I find I downloaded 1:250000 topos in 
> ecw format which I converted with a free utility (might have been 
> Irfanview) to jpg. From memory the utility ran under Windoze. Twas quite 
> a while ago and my memory has seen as many summers as me <grin>

ECW files can also be massaged to georeferenced GeoTIFF (better than
JPEG for geospatial data) by GDAL's "gdal_translate" or "gdalwarp" programs,
if you build or acquire GDAL with ECW support.  

But as I said, of the file formats listed, only shapefiles are *directly*
supported by Xastir.  All of the other formats listed require conversion to 
something else if you want to use it in Xastir.

> On 09/02/13 19:13, Liz wrote:
> > 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
> >   ER Mapper Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW), 3.31MB
> >   ESRI personal geodatabase, 2.29MB
> >   Georeferenced PDF map, 4.0MB
> >   Keyhole Markup Language (KML), 1.43MB
> >   MapInfo Native Format, MapInfo table file, 1.47MB

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