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Annotation of researchv10dc/maps/README, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: phones:        central office codes with latitude and longitude
        !             2: county.index:  standard USGS county and state numbers with names
        !             3:        and bounding lat-lon boxes
        !             4: *.x:   index to * for use by map(1)
        !             5: 101,102,...:   various World Data Bank II feature classes; see /usr/bin/map
        !             6: counties:      US county and state boundaries from census DIME files
        !             7: states:        US state boundaries only
        !             8: world: World Data Bank I coastlines
        !             9: usplaces USGS PPLGAZ list of names of populated places from topo
        !            10:           maps of US and possessions. sorted -df. fields are
        !            11:        1. name with state abbrev, occasionally commented, as
        !            12:           in `(Abandoned)'; sometimes prefixed # or suffixed *
        !            13:           for unknown reasons
        !            14:        2. one or two state-county codes; first two digits are
        !            15:           state, last 3 are county. county code 000 is unknown.
        !            16:        3. latitude in deg, positive north
        !            17:        4. longitude in deg, positive west
        !            18:        5. year of acceptance of name by board of geographic names
        !            19:        6. altitude, feet
        !            20:        7. population, 1980
        !            21:        8. map reference, up to four 4-digit identifiers of 7.5-min
        !            22:           topo sheets. in pacific territories the identifiers may
        !            23:           have appendages -10, -25, or -DMA to indicate different
        !            24:           map series.  identifiers of other forms are errors.
        !            25:        one or more of fields 3-8 may be empty, trailing empties elided
        !            26: statecodes: 2-digit codes used in usplaces, abbreviations, and
        !            27:        full names of states and possessions

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