[Xastir] GNIS data

[William McKeehan]

I just took an older version of the map_gnis.c file, copied it to
map_old_gnis.c and made the modifications elsewhere to support the old format
for files named "*.old_gnis"

This was pretty easy and should let both the old and new formats co-exist.

Thoughts?
-- 
William McKeehan
KI4HDU
http://mckeehan.homeip.net


On Sat, April 11, 2009 1:44 am, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:21:30PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
>>
>> --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Tom Russo
>> > <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I, for one, would prefer that the changes be reverted,
>> > then. ?The new GNIS
>> > > data is too defective.
>> >
>> > +1
>>
>> How is it that other people are using the GNIS files if the population data
>> no longer exists?  Do those other users no longer require population data or
>> did the data just get moved somewhere less convenient?
>
> The GNIS data is meant to be a list of place names and the spots to which they
> apply.  The primary purpose doesn't apparently require population data.  But
> Xastir does.  It was out of date, but at least it distinquished populated
> places with 100 people from populated places with 1,000,000.
>
>> I use the GNIS files, too, and I set up a few stripped files to reduce the
>> loading time.  But even that won't work if the population data is gone.
>
> Yes.  There was a reason we never updated the code to deal with the new stuff,
> and the code should be reverted.
>
> --
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xastir mailing list
> Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
>
>