Re: [Xastir] anyone looked at 2015 TIGER files?
Thanks Jason. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is interested in your results. Lee - K5DAT On Sep 18, 2016 5:52 PM, "Jason KG4WSV" wrote: > ... and to close out this little monolog, i finally noticed a) a TIGER > shapefile that contains roads, rail, water, etc in a single file > (EDGES), and b) someone already created a dbfawk for it. i'm off to > hack at that one a bit, to make the colors, lifestyles, etc match what > i like. > > -Jason > kg4wsv > ___ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] anyone looked at 2015 TIGER files?
... and to close out this little monolog, i finally noticed a) a TIGER shapefile that contains roads, rail, water, etc in a single file (EDGES), and b) someone already created a dbfawk for it. i'm off to hack at that one a bit, to make the colors, lifestyles, etc match what i like. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] anyone looked at 2015 TIGER files?
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > I grabbed the Alabama road files from the TIGER 2015 data set and > started hacking out a dbfawk for it. > I really don't see a way to make > a nice looking map. I may have spoken too soon. Looks like the 4 digit code I'd been ignoring gives more info on the type of road, much more than the single character I tried to key off of during my first attempt. in a fit of desperation I read the metadata that accompanies the shapfiles and found much more granular descriptions of the objects, even the 20% that have no names or single character types. Looks like they have record identifiers for various roads, alleys, sidewalks, 4wd trails, stairways, etc. Not sure how much of that data is actually present. at the moment i'm just working on Alabama, but I'll try to get around to checking some other states and see how many of each type of record is there, and if the dbfawk is reasonably complete. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
