[Xastir] How to get maps?

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 02:16:16PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Skyler F wrote:
> 
> > Also, I remember a BUNCH of errrors when I ran ./get-maptools.sh .  If that
> > helps. Below is some of the long stream of errors I got during execution.
> 
> Since I don't tend to use that, I can't help you with that one.

Get-maptools.sh is essentially a set of hard-coded build instructions for
*ancient* versions of various libraries that help Xastir with maps (e.g. 
proj-4.4.9, where the current version is 4.8, and gdal 1.3.2 where the current 
version is 2.0, etc.).

Most---if not all---of the packages that get-maptools installed were really 
hard to come by when get-maptools was written back in 2006, but it has not 
been updated in any substantial way since then --- CVS log shows nothing but 
updated copyright notices after 2006.  Lots has changed in those packages in
the last 8 years.

Nowadays, almost all of the packages that get-maptools.sh would install
are available in almost all of the package management systems for any
OS.  The tarballs that get-maptools.sh would download are years old, if they
are even still available or if the sites from which it would download are
even still in existance.  

I suggest that it is years past time that this tool was removed from the Xastir
distribution, and all references to it in the Xastir documentation expunged.

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