[Xastir] GNIS data

[Jerry Stueve]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> 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.


OK, I added .pop files for the old format files. I would have done it the
other way round if GNIS metatdata format was not the real change or if the
definition of GNIS had changed from USGS. The 'Locate Map Feature' option
was also expecting to use the GNIS data file and it was broke so that was
were this trip through wonderland began.

I was unable to get old format information for VA on aprs.tamu.edu. So I am
looking at information on Census site to extract data from available
resources to try to get that into old format. The script for get-pop is
severly limited as the file names are not readily decipherable by my
inspection.

>
> > 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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