[OZAPRS] GEO files in XASTIR

[Ray Wells]

Rodney Mitchell wrote:

>On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:56 +1100, Ray Wells wrote:
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>>Peter,
>>
>>I use Irfanview to convert from .ecw to .jpg and I create a UIView .inf 
>>file for each map. I then use the inf2geo.pl scripts that ships with 
>>xastir to convert from .inf to .geo.
>>
>>There may be an easier way but when that worked I stopped looking, hi.
>>
>>I should consider creating ppm files rather than jpg to create smaller 
>>images. Maybe a rainy day job.
>>
>>Ray vk2tv
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>Hi Ray and All...
>
>Magic! Thx for the tip re Irfanview!
>
>There are some 50,000:1 maps for Oziexplorer around for SA, but they are
>BIG, around 500MB, and Irfanview previews them OK, but when trying to
>open them errors with a message "decode fault" or something like that...
>
>Probably a file size limitation with Irfanview me guess as PC has 4GB
>RAM etc etc...
>
>Regards to ALL, 73 Rod, VK5KFB.
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Rod,

What format are those maps?

Did you install the plug-in package for Irfanview? It's needed to handle 
some formats.

Ray vk2tv
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