[Xastir] GNIS data

[William McKeehan]

It does not appear that the old format is supported any longer. That's why I
noticed the change - all of a sudden, my map was covered with TN's (being the
state that I had on the map).
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
http://mckeehan.homeip.net


On Fri, April 10, 2009 8:52 pm, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:49:20PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
>> I noticed that someone recently checked-in a change to the map_gnis.c file
>> in
>> the project. Does this update make it work with the new format of the files?
>> Where can one fetch the latest GNIS data?
>
> Jerry did update the code in map_gnis, but since the new format files lack
> population data, and Xastir uses the population field to filter small towns
> and
> villages from high zoom-level views, you might not like how they look.
>
> I haven't updated the code since before those changes --- do they maintain
> the ability to use old format GNIS data?  The old format files are still
> archived at aprs.tamu.edu
>
> Jerry also updated the script that fetches GNIS files, so it probably has the
> right paths to get the data.
>
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