Bill, You get the US maps working and I'll get the Canadian maps working. No way can I do both at the same time. Then all we need to do is string the scripts together in a wrapper and let the machines work.
I am also running Ubuntu 9.10 73 Dave KB3EFS On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill Hammond <ka1...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a relative noob to xastir and I'm having trouble with the Tiger 2008 > maps that I downloaded and installed according to the instructions in > the wiki. > > I downloaded the files for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (the whole > Hillsborough directory) and installed them in the proper directories per > the wiki. Whenever I access them, dbfawk complains that it cannot find > the signature files. Here is the output I get from xterm... > > Built-in map types: > gnis USGS GNIS Datapoints > pop USGS GNIS Datapoints w/population > map APRSdos Maps > map WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps > pdb PocketAPRS Maps > > Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: > geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats > allowed) > geo URL (Internet maps via libcurl library) > shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library) > xpm X Pixmap Maps (XPM library) > festival_client: connect to server failed > SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival > Indexing maps... > Finished indexing maps > *** Reading WX Alert log files > *** Done with WX Alert log files > No DBFAWK signature for > TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_tabblock00.shp! > Using default. > No DBFAWK signature for > TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_bg00.shp! > Using default. > No DBFAWK signature for > TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_taz00.shp! > Using default. > No DBFAWK signature for > TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_tract00.shp! > Using default. > No DBFAWK signature for > TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_vtd00.shp! > Using default. > > I have read about .dbfawk files in the MAPS.README file. I did a little > searching after that and found that there are no matching .dbfawk files > for the .dbf files for the maps that I downloaded. > > I discovered the Tiger 2009 maps on the same server, so I installed them > as well using the same procedure, only this time going to the 2009 > directory. No luck; the maps seem to load although with a grey > background. > > I guess my question is two-fold: 1) Is there a way to generate a .dbfawk > file from a .dbf file and b) should I even be worrying about these > errors in the first place? > > I'm running version 1.9.7 sucked from the cvs under Ubuntu 9.10. I've > recently rediscovered xastir after reading about it in the Linux > Journal. If this program were a woman, I'd marry it! ^_^ > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > 73, > > Bill Hammond KA1SSR > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
