On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > I just surfed over to the Census web site and see this: > > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/future/future_tl.html > > It says that after the 2006 Second Edition files are released (which happened > a few weeks ago), they will no longer be producing TIGER/Line files, they'll > be > replaced by a number of different file formats including shapefiles. Looks > like a big win for xastir users!
I for one will be _more_ than happy to see that file format bite the dust! It wasn't even really a map format: It was really just several database tables dumped to disk files in text format. A real pain to construct anything out of. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir