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 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's also xearth :) Peter De Wachter
