[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> > ah. well, the "right" answer would be to grab the shape from the RT2 file,
> > but iirc the geocoder doesn't keep that data.
>
> Yes, I see that.  It's starting to look like a database to hold all
> of this data would be a good idea, as we could use it for geocoder
> lookups, for highlighting roads found by geocoding, for looking up
> speed limits, and for drawing the maps.  We'd only need one copy of
> the data as well.  Right now we have a partial second copy of the
> map data in the geocode data.

Yes, but what a pain. I don't want to have to run mysql/postgres
everywhere I run xastir. sqlite might be overkill. i dunno.