[Xastir] .shp vs poly.shp

[Keith Kaiser]

I really need to get with some experts.... hmmmm... OK then, are the
National Atlas maps something available to buy or on the Internet or
???

Also, building maps sure seems to take a while, what can I do to speed
it up? I'm running a Mac Mini @ 1.42 ghz, have 512k of ram I should
think that would be enough to make it fly, but anytime I move the map
in or out or side to side the rebuild is painfully slow.


On 4/18/05, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 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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>   worth the effort." -- Norton Juster
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