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

[William McKeehan]

I have taken the GNIS files and used the wonderful tool "grep" to produce a
smaller subset of the data to display on maps. My grep was for "|ppl|" to get
city/town names.

It made things much faster for me - you may want to give it a try.

On Wed, January 5, 2005 11:49 am, Jason Winningham said:
>
> 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.
>
>>  They're not map data. In and of themselves, they are useless for
>> navigation.
>
> If you're navigating, where do you navigate _to_, if not a point? The
> position of that point on a map is a pretty powerful navigational aide.
>
> -j
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