[Xastir] Maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> You haven't mentioned what sort of raster graphics you're interested in yet. 
> I would recommend using the OSM maps as a first step, which are vector maps 
> from the OpenStreetMaps project.  Xastir can use OSM maps directly w/o having 
> to download them manually onto your hard drive, but if you want local maps 
> for driving or portable use, download the Cloudmade OSM Shapefile Extracts 
> instead.
>
> Once you have that working well, there are other OSM maps that are raster 
> tiles.  There are USGS DRG geoTIFF maps (one of my favorites) for topo maps. 
> There are USGS DOQQ aerial maps.  Just let us know what you're interested in 
> and I'll bet someone on here can point you to them.

I was also going to mention:  If you can find raster maps out there that come with INF files, the Xastir project has the "inf2geo.pl" script that can create a .GEO file out of it.  You must have GraphicsMagick or ImageMagick installed, plus Perl, in order to use it.  Might give you a bunch more possibilities.

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