[Xastir] GNIS Data Problem

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:37:59PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <gdw at kc4pl.com> flavor, containing:
> I have my state GNIS file installed in the GNIS directory.  But when I
> select it in Map Chooser I get exactly nothing.  I downloaded the file
> from the usgs.gov site and renamed the file to SC.gnis, etc.   I was
> told that I should see a dot for each of the towns in the state.  I have
> pretty much all of the libraries installed except gdal (it errors out
> during the build) using the get-maptools.sh script.  What am I overlooking?

The format of GNIS files changed recently.  Xastir does not recognize the
new format, and the new format is missing some of the information that
Xastir would have used to decided what zoom level at which to stop displaying
some data --- so the code cannot easily be modified to use the new format.

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