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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> But as a true topological format, it did carry around lots of relationships
> between data that get thrown away very quickly when digested to formats like
> shapefiles.  Made it pretty well suited to GIS analysis, which was its purpose.

Sure, but did you ever look at the code I had to write in order to
make it usable in Xastir?  That work made me an instant enemy of the
file format.

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