Any chance of someone posting a screen shot or two to see how the tiger files look?
Thank You, Brian N2KGC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Curt, WE7U Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps Thanks to the below mentioned people we now have Tiger 2008 streetmap capability in Xastir... And it's really fast! If you're used to the Online Tigermap server, the speed of this will really blow you away. It's also great for taking Xastir on the road where you don't have internet access. Please note the special instructions below for setting up the layering so that roads aren't covered up. Perhaps we can automate that part soon. Here's the commit message from a few minutes ago: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Modified Files: Makefile.am Added Files: tabblock.dbfawk pointlm.dbfawk featnames.dbfawk edge.dbfawk cousub.dbfawk cousub00.dbfawk areawater.dbfawk arealm.dbfawk Log Message: Adding the dbfawk files worked on by Richard Polivka, N6NKO, Craig Anderson, N6YXK, and Dale Seaburg, KG5LT, which help to nicely render 2008 Tiger Shapeline files. A note from Craig about layering: "...use "vi" on the map_index.sys file while xastir is not running. Once you are editing the file, use the following 3 commands in "vi" to change the layers. This assumes that, like with my xastir, new maps get added into the list at layer 1000. :g/tabblock/s/01000/00995/ :g/pointlm/s/01000/00996/ :g/arealm/s/01000/00997/ (translation: global search throughout the file for lines with "arealm" and substitute on that line for "01000", a "00997") This moves the tabblock (& tabblock00) files, pointlm files, and arealm files down underneath the roads maps. Otherwise the roads can get covered up by urban background coloring. Or you can do this through the GUI interface as well." --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
