Re: world map program
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
> It seems that we don't have any good world map software in Debian.
>
> What I would like to see is a program that has a database of the co-ordinates
> of the countries and the names of major cities. It should of course be
> searchable so I could type the name of a country and see it's details.
>
> Also ideally it would have support for a number of databases so it could be
> run in a fashion to show how countries changed borders/names/etc over time.
>
>
> Any ideas of such a program? If I can find one I'll package it for unstable
> ASAP.
The package 'miscfiles' has a list of coordinates of cities and small
islands. It is installed in /usr/share/misc/cities.dat.gz.
A sample entry:
ID : 1
Type : City
Population : 210700
Size :
Name : Aberdeen
Country : UK
Region : Scotland
Location : Earth
Longitude : -2.083
Latitude : 57.150
Elevation :
Date : 19961206
Entered-By : Rob.Hooft@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
There's also xearth :)
Peter De Wachter
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