[Xastir] GNIS files

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:21:10PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <troymc at epicalliance.com> flavor, containing:
> Tom,
> 
> That's the conclusion I came too also.
> 
> I'm going to gen up a perl script to translate the format, but it won't
> help the zoom level issue.  I thought of a crippled up work around but
> it still requires that I can find the population numbers from
> _somewhere_.

It might be possible to cobble such information from census data, but that'd
be a royal PITA.

> When I get the crappyGNIS_2_previousGNIS.pl written, I'll see if anyone
> wants to use it.
> 
> Is there a document or table in the source maybe or in a config file
> that specifies the zoom level breaks for GNIS files?

The source code's in map_gnis.c, the level breaks are hardcoded.

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