[Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF

[Curt Mills]

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
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> - --Eric
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