[Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF

[Curt Mills]

Hah, you mean xastir/scripts/geopdf2gtiff.pl

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Xastir has a script that uses gdal to convert GeoPDF to GeoTIFF.  Tom Russo
> wrote it a few years ago and refined it much more recently.  There was
> quite a bit of discussion about it not too long ago.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> On Mar 21, 2016 11:12 AM, "Curt Mills" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As I recall the geoPDF's have multiple layers that can be
> enabled/disabled
> > for viewing. I'm not sure whether these files can be directly used within
> > other programs w/o having to implement Postscript and a bunch of other
> > stuff. Would be worth investigating though.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Eric Christensen <
> > eric at christensenplace.us>
> > wrote:
> >
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> > > I recently learned that USGS will no longer release GeoTIFF-formatted
> > > map files in favor of GeoPDF[0].  This will likely cause problems for
> > > Xastir.  I did locate a instructions for converting the GeoPDF to
> > > GeoTIFF[1].
> > >
> > > [0] http://www.usgs.gov/faq/taxonomy/term/10413
> > > [1] http://www.usgs.gov/faq/node/3704
> > >
> > > - --Eric
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