I downloaded the most recent GNIS Data from the USGS (http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html) earlier this week and was disappointed to remember that the new data does not contain as much info as the old data. The biggest thing that I noticed missing was the Estimated Population. Without that, it's hard for mapping data to differentiate between large cities and small cities, so it's basically an all or nothing display.
Has anyone done any research to see if the data is available from another source that would provide Xastir with the information that it needs? One thing that may be nice to have is the FIPS data (http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/fips55codedef.html), with the classification information there, we could turn on/off features based on type. -- William McKeehan KI4HDU http://mckeehan.homeip.net Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/mckeehan On Wed, April 30, 2008 8:25 pm, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:09 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2 - Looks like it's time to update some of the scripts in the >> ~/xastir/scripts directory. Specifically get-NWSdata and get-gnis > > Is the GNIS data still broken? > > One of these days I'll make a shapefile out of the old data I have on hand. > > -Jason > kg4wsv > _______________________________________________ > 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
