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 <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> >> --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Tom Russo >> > <[email protected]> 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 It was out of date, but at least it distinquished populated 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 > [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
