gazetter files

[Stephen Woodbridge]

joerg pfeiffer wrote:
> hello,
>
> I would like to use a gazetter file of the format
> Zwolfling       P       PPL       48.6166         13.5833       ....
>
> I am completely lost, how do I use it?
> I only know the dbfs with extra shapefiles, this one comes alone.

I guess my first question(s) are:
What do you want to do with this file?
o Display it as point names at the appropriate location?
o be able to lookup the names and get their lat/long?
o or something else?

-Steve W.