[Xastir] What county am I in?

[Gerry Creager]

Specifically, what I've been asked for is the ability to query some sort 
of database or server with GPS coordinates and produce both Maidenhead 
and County Name.  Both are easy to do with PostGIS, and I'm probably 
going to write a SOAP service and a web page that'll do it.

gerry

William McKeehan wrote:
> I have something similar. I have COUNTIES.DBF/SHP/SHX files with a dbfawk like
> this:
> 
> BEGIN {dbffields="NAME"}
> 
> BEGIN_RECORD {key=""; lanes=1; color=254; fill_color=1; name=""; filled=0;
> pattern=0; display_level=4096; label_level=1024; label_color=20; font_size=3;
> symbol=""; fill_style=2 }
> 
> /^NAME=(.*)$/ {name=$1; next}
> 
> END {}
> 
> I do not remember where I found the counties files, but if you want them, you
> can fetch them from my home server:
> http://mckeehan.homeip.net/xastirmaps/1-USABase/Counties
> 

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