On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:05:54PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> 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 <[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 -- 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
