On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 07:02:50AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:34:54 -0500 > Steve Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Here is a link for a Debian Squeeze binary xastir-2.0.1 > > http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Debian_Squeeze_Binary > > > > steve kd5mkv > > > Thanks Steve, Tom, Curt, Lee > I installed this suggestion from Steve, which used some older libraries > than I had installed but does work, so it does download online stuff as > well as show the .MAP files from Au APRS site. > > Now I can see the errors for the GeoTiffs > > *** geoTIFF file /usr/share/xastir/maps/tif/8231s.tif is not in the > proper format: ***** Has 3 samples per pixel instead of 1 > *** Please reformat it and try again.
That's easy to deal with. Install gdal, then use "rgb2pct.py" (a python script installed by gdal) to dither the 3-band, 24-bit color image (RGB) to an 8-bit color map (pct = Pseudo Color Table). -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
