On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 07:20:57 -0700 Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 07:13:59PM +1100, we recorded a > bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, > containing: > > I've got a choice of formats for CC licensed maps from Geoscience > > Australia. > > My advisor is on shift at present so can anyone advise which of the > > following freely available formats would be best to download? > > > > ArcView shape file, May be imported into MapInfo, 1.58MB > > You will have to work on a "dbfawk" file to tell Xastir how to render > the lines, but this is the only format you listed that Xastir > supports directly. > > All of the other formats will have to be massaged into something else > to get Xastir to read it. > > A long time ago, there was an effort to get GDAL support into Xastir, > and if that were completed then almost all the formats you listed > would be supported. But it was not completed. > Thanks Tom Yes, the arcview files are shown without complaint. The data is still going to need massaging, nothing less useful than a large number of crosses marked 'place name'. I'll be waiting on assistance from my son to look at the data _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
