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 <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
