On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:49:48PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I've used it before, although not recently. Not sure when it broke, but > doesn't seem to work now. It says that it connects to geonames.usgs.gov and > then it says HTTP request sent, but the reply is 404 not found. It has that > same sequence for both > > http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/CT_DECI.zip > and for > http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/CT_DECI.TXT > > So no go on either account. I had also tried all the other New England > states (CT, MA, RI, VT, NH, ME) with the same results on all. I tried it on > two separate installations with the same results. Running the latest > incarnation on at least one of the machines.
Well, even if it had worked I think you'd have been disappointed. get-gnis should be removed. The new GNIS files from usgs are useless in xastir, as they have the wrong format and are missing critical data we used to use to choose what to display when. We could recognize the new format with a code change, but the missing data is irreplacable (things like city population size, used to select what zoom levels should show that city). Take a look at ftp://aprs.tamu.edu in the pub/GNIS directory. That directory has a small number of old-format GNIS files that were uploaded by folks who happened to still have some. Unfortunately, it has none of the New England states. If list members have old-format GNIS files that are not already in the pub/GNIS directory, they should probably bzip2 them and upload them to aprs.tamu.edu in the 'incoming' directory, then notify Gerry that they're there and can be moved. Please do this, because this is the only way that other xastir users will have access to usable GNIS data. The new stuff from USGS is useless for our purposes. Maybe at some point some other useful data source will replace GNIS. Or someone would have to recode the map_gnis stuff to recognize the new format and to choose zoom levels based on something other than population of a place. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
