Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, James Ewen wrote: I was looking to see if I could find the issues you are trying to point out, but it is a little difficult to find right where you are looking at. I suspect the problem with the west and north borders of Whatcom county may have been due to the way the

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-09 Thread John Ronan
Hi Curt, I like yours better than my poor attempt last night. One tweak I would do though is set the fill_color to 10 for TYPE=forest on _natural.dbfawk For Ireland the administrative database seems to have multiple levels (2,4,6,7,10 and 'blank') to represent the same thing, though Level 2

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Keith Kaiser wrote: It sounded good. I changed one item at a time, then small groups, then finally everything. None of my changes actually translated to a change of the map... yet I know these dbfawk files do work. H! Where did you put the dbfawk file? There are two

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:59:11 Curt, WE7U wrote: Here I saw problems with the Canadian border -and- the west border of Whatcom county, plus a typo: Insterstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass. I'm sure I'll find more as I play. If someone who's familiar with OSM knows the easiest method for updating

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-09 Thread James Ewen
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Here I saw problems with the Canadian border -and- the west border of Whatcom county, plus a typo:  Insterstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass.  I'm sure I'll find more as I play.  If someone who's familiar with OSM knows the

[Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, James Ewen wrote: So, you state that you would like to have better looking maps, and you hate the existing esoteric dbfawk files, but then sum it up by giving up and just asking someone else to create a dbfawk file that may or may not make things look the way you like, and

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread John Ronan
Hi, I've a few dbfawk's done. The OSM patches were released before I got back to looking at them further. http://www.ei7ig.org/xastir/dbfawk/ I must have neglected to post the link to the list previously, apologies Regards de John EI7IG On 8 Jul 2010, at 09:33, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu,

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread Thomas Sprinzing
Heyho, thanks Curt. See, that is what i meant: you got the ball rolling in a couple of minutes, while i was fighting my way and failing to get that dbfinfo running on my Mac. Thanks a lot! Thomas VA3TSE Am 08.07.2010 um 11:19 schrieb Curt, WE7U: A slightly better version:

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread John Ronan
On 8 Jul 2010, at 10:41, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote: A slightly better version: Yet better. I just borrowed some of the colors from John Ronan's version, but I also notice that his dbfawk signature doesn't match mine, so his version is probably not for the

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Ronan wrote: Mine were done with Geofabrick.de, should I change? I'm curious now! I looked at the 2nd site listed on the OSM Shapefiles page and it didn't have any U.S. maps, so my choices were more limited. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread John Ronan
Snagged the cloudmade shapefile. That looks pretty reasonable here as well. John On 8 Jul 2010, at 10:53, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Ronan wrote: Mine were done with Geofabrick.de, should I change? I'm curious now! I looked at the 2nd site listed on the OSM Shapefiles

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread Thomas Sprinzing
http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/vlimar/downloads.php the last item: SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer seems to be worth a try??? Am 08.07.2010 um 13:16 schrieb Curt, WE7U: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, John Ronan wrote: Snagged the cloudmade shapefile. That looks pretty reasonable here as

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote: Before I was done I completed tweaked dbfawk files for each of the Cloudmade Shapefiles for Washington State. These can probably be extended to match others in the set and put into the Xastir global dbfawk area, as long as there aren't any conflicts in

Re: [Xastir] OSM Example DBFAWK File

2010-07-08 Thread Keith Kaiser
Those are not too bad Curt, very nice in fact. Now for my long time dream color the county boardsred. On Jul 8, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Curt, WE7U wrote: Before I was done I completed tweaked dbfawk files for each of the Cloudmade Shapefiles for