[Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF

[Lee Bengston]

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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