<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Maarten Deen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdeen@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">mdeen@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2016-02-04 07:58, Paul Johnson wrote:<br>
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I suspect you're onto something here; it's not a phrase that's even in<br>
my GIS vernacular. Don't even recall it from college experience<br>
(though I took French and majored in civil engineering; amazing I'm<br>
not mapping professionally)...<br>
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True. I think "attic" in this case would refer to a place where you store old things, so it relates to old data.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Based on zero context other than what list it arrived on, I figured it was like tags from an import nobody uses anymore, like some of the long-in-tooth <font face="monospace, monospace">tiger:*=*</font> namespace still common in the US.</div></div></div></div>