On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 12:13:25 -0000 "Tommy Kane" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have scoured the archives and found a thread dating back to 2010 on > how to get this working but all suggested remedies have either failed > or I have failed. I am not the sharpest tool in the box on Ubuntu and > was looking for some basic guidance. I have followed the Installation > as prescribed in the wiki but seem to fail. > > I also have shapelib in my home/ src folder but when I configured > Xastir I chose the option to configure shapelib internally. > > > > I have maps that I have downloaded from Geofabrik.de and have copied > and used some dbfawk files from an Irish ham site but still need to > build dbfawk files for location, points. places to complete the > task. Without dbfinfo I don't know where to start. Your assistance > would be most appreciated. > > > > Tommy > > MM0KNE > Have I got this right? You have some maps which you can display, but would like to improve the display with a dbfawk file? You are looking for a program which can read the shapelib so you can find the names of the database columns? In a shape file there are a number of files eg cstauscd_l.dbf cstausd_l.dbf cstausd_l.prj (and more) Open the dbf file with a spreadsheet program eg Gnumeric, LibreOffice Calc You can then read the column headers and those are the names to go in the dbfawk file. Liz VK2XSE _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
