[Xastir] maps

[Brian D Heaton]

Does the APRS-MapManager project support shapefiles yet?  This seems
like the perfect place to store something like a national archive of
easily accessible TIGER maps.

				THX/BDH


On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:46, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> > What's wrong with getting the raw data (I already have every year back to
> > 1999, and I think 1997) and converting to shapefile? The raw data can be
> > mirrored with wget; surely the conversion can be scripted?
> 
> Raw data would be good too, but it'd be better for the majority of
> users to have something they can easily snag and use right away,
> without having to download map conversion tools and run them.
> 
> Would would be very cool would be a repository that could be used
> both for downloading and for online internet mapping using Xastir,
> but the pipe might need to be bigger to support that kind of abuse.
> 
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