[Xastir] GeoPDF try

[Lee Bengston]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
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>> Without the imagery, you don't need the high DPI that will be used by
>> default,
>> and so the thing processes much, much quicker (less than a minute, vs.
>> more
>> than 40 minutes).  And instead of a 100+MB file, you get a 26MB file.
>> The result looks very, very nice.
>>
>>
> ​
> Thanks, Tom, for all the detailed feedback, which is not out of character
> :-)
>
> I thought building gdal from source might be required given I had to do
> that last time.​
>
> ​ Back then I had aspirations of documenting step by step what it took to
> convert and use those maps but never got to it.  At that time they came out
> a little dark but were still very usable.  It sounds like the newer
> geoPDF's may convert into nicer looking maps.  I'm off to try the FTP site
> from your other message so I can take a look.
>

​I took a look, and the map does look great.  The goal now is to get
conversion working for me and plug them into Xastir.  I'll post a link to a
screen shot of Xastir using them when

​I have it up and running.​

​

​BR,
Lee - K5DAT​