[Xastir] why isn't GNIS in maps directory?

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Wed Jan 5 11:52:34 EST 2005


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > You can display them not on a map.
>
> huh?  You _can_ display them, and xastir's code handles the display
> well, except for the time required to sift through on average 37000
> lines of data per state to display the few I want.

I typically only want a few county's worth of data at a time, so I
grepped for each county of interest and created a separate file.
Speeds things up a lot.

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