[Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF

[Brian Heaton]

I cranked the dpi setting in the script so mine would look good at higher
zoom levels. Bigger files but storage is cheap.
On Mar 21, 2016 11:59 AM, "Kurt" <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I believe the discussion was from December and I was able to get
> the script going on a couple of laptops with help.  I'd recommend at least
> a quad coreas an old dual core took forever to do one conversion.  I
> downloadedsome maps through a wide bandwidth link during a weekend at work
> and took the files and placedthem on the quad core and old dual core.
> Takes a long time for screenchanges on the dual core and the GeoTiffs are
> mixed in with the old Tigeror Cloudmade maps I have lying around. They look
> nice at all except veryclose zoom levels.
> Kurt KC9LDH
>
>       From: Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
>  To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>  Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:18 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Xastir] Goodbye GeoTIFF, Hello GeoPDF
>
> 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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