[Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

[Troy M. Campbell]

> If you're gonna do that, why not just make it a shapefile
> and create a dbfawk, so the sufficiently interested user
> can control the display levels? 

I hadn't thought of that.  It would be an interesting exercise......
When I get time to learn more about shapefiles.

73 de Troy, KC0MIC

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Winningham [mailto:jdw at eng.uah.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:19 AM
To: Troy M. Campbell
Cc: Xastir User mailing list
Subject: Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era


On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote:

> I _could_ get a file with population by FIPS code and merge it into a 
> GNIS set using XASTIR's current file format,


If you're gonna do that, why not just make it a shapefile and create a
dbfawk, so the sufficiently interested user can control the display
levels?

I've been threatening to do that to the GNIS data, but haven't gotten
around to it...

-Jason
kg4wsv