On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:
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 how I'm snagging them: Go to ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008/53_WASHINGTON/ with a browser. Use this to find the names of the directories you are interested in. Make directories in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps where you wish to put the maps. I created directories like these: .../maps/USA/WA/Counties/Snohomish-2008/ .../maps/USA/WA/Counties/Island-2008/ Snag the files with wget using the paths discovered through your browser above: cd /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/USA/WA/Counties mkdir Snohomish-2008 cd Snohomish-2008 wget ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008/53_WASHINGTON/53061_Snohomish_County/* unzip \*.zip;chmod -x *;chmod go-w * If everything looks good, remove the downloaded zip files: rm *.zip Repeat the above steps for each county you're interested in. When done with the downloading/unzipping: Start up Xastir and do Map->Configure->Index New Maps, then shut down Xastir. Use the "vi" editor to change the map layers: vi ~/.xastir/config/map_index.sys :g/tabblock/s/01000/00995/ :g/pointlm/s/01000/00996/ :g/arealm/s/01000/00997/ :wq (Who's a "sed" user? Give us some commands to do the same thing in sed please! Commands should be similar but can then be scripted.) Start up Xastir and select the maps. I've been selecting only these types of maps: arealm.shp areawater.shp edges.shp tabblock.shp As I mentioned: Perhaps we can automated the process of downloading/installing these maps and setting the map levels for them. -- 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
