[Xastir] .shp vs poly.shp

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:17:00PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <keith.kaiser at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
[Re: shapefile conversions of tiger data, polygons vs. linear]
> That was very clear thank you very much. Just out of curiosity what do you use?

I have both for my entire state.  I only use them, though, when zoomed in
fairly close.  At wider zooms (more than a county or two visible) I use the 
National Atlas roads layer.  For hydrography, I prefer the National Atlas map 
of streams and waterbodies.

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