gazetter files

[joerg pfeiffer]

Stephen Woodbridge schrieb:
> 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.
>
>

I d like to display them as points with labels on my map.
I found out, that I have to create a shapefile. I would like to do this
with mapscript, but cant't find a good example at the moment...

any help welcome :-)
Joerg