[Mapserver-users] OT: vmap0 text?

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Hi,

Note that there is a WFS instance up at:

http://ogc.compusult.nf.ca/cgi-bin/OGC/gazetteers/wfs

Info:
http://www.compusult.nf.ca/cslt_prod_dm_gaz.html

Cheers

..Tom

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Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Environment Canada
Tel: +01-905-336-4409
http://www.ec.gc.ca/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Tyler Mitchell
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 22:14
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] OT: vmap0 text?
> 
> 
> Hi Nick,
> You asked the right question at the right time :)
> You want this: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html
> Tab delimited files for the whole planet.  Millions of points 
> over the earth, 
> with fairly good accuracy (limited by precision of decimal 
> degree lat/longs).
> 
> I'm working on loading all the places into a PostGIS database 
> and making it 
> available through a WFS.  If you do anything with the global 
> one, let me 
> know, so I don't waste too much more time :)
> 
> Current ogr has a draft comma delimited file driver (CSV 
> format) which I 
> bastardized to handle tab delimiters instead.  It worked 
> fairly well on this 
> file.
> 
> Email me off list if you want more information or to swap 
> strategies of 
> handling the 700MB+ global text file.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 16:31, Nick Johnson wrote:
> > Is anyone familiar with the placement and format of text in 
> the VMAP0 
> > format? I've converted it all to shapefile format, but I'm 
> trying to 
> > seperate out country, region, city, town and place names, and can't 
> > seem to achieve that. Multiple layers have text, but there 
> seems to be 
> > no distinction between the different types of label. Also, mapsever 
> > seems to display labels selectively - phystxt seems to have country 
> > names (repeated several times!), but when I tell mapserver 
> to display 
> > them, it instead displays other labels with similar coordinates and 
> > skips the country names altogether. Does anyone have advice 
> on how to 
> > seperate out the different levels of name? Also, names seem 
> to be in 
> > upper-case for the most part. Can anyone point me to a tool for 
> > turning these into Initial Caps? Alternatively, does anyone 
> know where 
> > I can get a (free) database of placenames?
> >
> > -Nick Johnson
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