On 4/17/09, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> 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 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." > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Getting back to the original announcement, wouldn't it be possible for those who don't want to recompile to just add the new dbfawk files to their /usr/local/share/xastir/config directory, download the maps, re-index, and edit their map_index.sys file? Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
