[Xastir] GNIS data

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

Consider using the NWS cities shapefile?  I'll try to get that reference 
to you over the weekend.

Or sooner if I can find it tonight on this laptop.

gerry

Wes Johnston wrote:
> I'm working with the local NWS office.... he wanted city names, so I
> told him how to create the linked folder z under the maps folder, and
> that works.  I send him a file called 0pop_places_over_500.gnis at first
> , and that displays the cities.  But he wanted more details, so I sent
> him a file called GASC.gnis that contains only towns in GA and SC... but
> it's got all of them.  Problem is, that xastir keeps displaying the city
> names from 0pop_places_over_500.gnis  even though he's deleted the
> file.  And it never shows towns from the GASC.gnis file even though it's
> shown and selected in the map chooser.  He's running cygwin xasir that
> we compiled about a month ago for him.
> 
> How do we purge the 0pop_places file contents, and how do we make it
> display the GASC file?  Funny thing is, it's working fine for me on my
> cygwin/xastir work PC.
> Wes
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