Tom Russo wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:35:13PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of
the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Steve/WM5Z wrote:
OK. I'll give it a try this evening. Thanks Alex.
Make sure that if you use backslashes, there's nothing else on the
end of each line. A backslash at the END of each line is the signal
to the shell to continue the command on the next line. A possible
gotcha' there.
OK, I spoke to soon. The files that were generated are still empty.
I did follow the destructions. So what went wrong? BTW, I am using the
latest download from the site with a 2008 date code. They didn't by
chance change the fields, did they???
Yes, they did. Several years ago. README.MAPS is dreadfully outdated on that
score. The new files are useless, as they are missing most of the fields that
we need for Xastir (especially population for populated places, which we
use to determine the zoom level at which to stop displaying).
If you're lucky, you might find the GNIS files in the the old format for
the state you're interested in archived at aprs.tamu.net. If it's NM, you're
lucky. If aprs.tamu.net's FTP server is up.
I do have them for each state. What I was trying to do was use
POP_PLACES which is the national file if I am thinking correctly. My
idea was to make the original file, POP_PLACES with all the data work at
a close zoom, like below 500. Then from 501 through 5000 zoom use the 1k
file, and above 5000 zoom use 50K. That should work well to display
major cities in the US when looking at the weather radars zoomed out for
the whole country.
Now I will have to see if I saved one of the older versions of the GNIS
files around here. I guess that it should work on one of the older
files. Since I am only looking to show major cities, and couldn't care
less about the latest demographics, this should work.
Any other ideas you might have are, of coarse, welcome.
Steve/WM5Z
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