That's a good idea.<br>I loaded mine into a MySQL table to make lookup faster.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fawcett, David</b> <<a href="mailto:David.Fawcett@state.mn.us">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">If you
wanted to make the nearest station calculation simple, you might want to
pre-generate a shapefile for the areas that relate to each station, you could
then just query the shapefile to get the nearest or most relevant station.
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">David.</font></span></div>
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