[Xastir] GNIS data

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:05:54PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> 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).

Grrrrr.

I, for one, would prefer that the changes be reverted, then.  The new GNIS
data is too defective.

> 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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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
  In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. 
                                  -- Ineffective daily affirmation