[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Tue Mar 30 15:27:55 EST 2004


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Jack Twilley wrote:

> It would be grand if the OGR/GDAL work were kept up to date with cool
> Shapefile stuff like this, because the Tiger files have the same
> information that Curt mentions that is present in the shapefiles.

You can read in Tiger/Line files with OGR currently, but you don't
get labels/colors etc.

Yes, I agree, that would be nice.  OGR is the way to go in the
future, and Shapelib will probably go away eventually (OGR has
Shapelib support already).

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