Yes. The .dbf comes with a shapefile and contains information about features in the shapefile. The .dbfawk file is xastir filetype and contains rules on how to display a feature in a shapefile based on what is in the .dbf file.
- Jason On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:05 AM Skyler Fennell <[email protected]> wrote: > So a .dbf and .dbfawk are two separate file types? I think that's where I > am confused. > > > > > On Jul 7, 2015, at 3:23 AM, Kevin Ratcliff <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Skyler, > > > > Are you referring to the OpenStreetMaps shapefile extracts that are free > to > > download from http://download.geofabrik.de/? If so, you may be able to > take > > a "shortcut" on your quest to get labels. Let me explain. > > > > A few years ago there were OSM shapefile extracts available at > > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/. The xastir developers did a lot of work > > creating custom dbfawk files for these shapefiles. The really nice thing > > about the dbfawk files for these shapefiles is that they not only labeled > > the street names but also color coded them by type and such. They weren't > > as pretty looking as the online OSM tiles, but they worked offline and > were > > extremely fast for panning/zooming. Sadly the Cloudmade free download > > service no longer exists. > > > > It appears all is not lost though. The Geofabrik shapefile DBF file > fields > > aren't that much different from the Cloudmade DBF fields. I just tried a > > quick hack on an existing dbfawk file that was designed for a Cloudmade > > shapefile and it seemed to work with little modification using a > Geofabrik > > shapefile. > > > > Here's what I did (I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I > > dunno what they are): > > > > I located the original file named OSM_Cloudmade_highway.dbfawk (on my > > system it was located in /usr/share/xastir/config/) and copied that file > to > > new file called roads.dbfawk in my xastir maps directory (next to the > other > > roads.* files that I downloaded from Geofabrik). Then I looked at the > > format of the Geofabrik roads.dbf file and based on that made a couple > > simple changes to my roads.dbfawk file: > > > > Change the line that reads > > > > dbfinfo="TYPE:NAME:ONEWAY:LANES"; > > > > to > > > > dbfinfo="OSM_ID:NAME:REF:TYPE:ONEWAY:BRIDGE:TUNNEL:MAXSPEED"; > > > > and change the line that reads > > > > dbffields="TYPE:NAME:ONEWAY:LANES"; > > > > to > > > > dbffields="TYPE:NAME:ONEWAY"; > > > > With luck, you should now be able to re-index your maps in xastir and > open > > your roads.shp and see a nicer looking map with streets labeled. > > > > Perhaps if there is enough demand for offline OSM maps in xastir someone > > could do a better job of converting the existing Cloudmade dbfawk files > to > > work with the Geofabrik shapefiles and include the dbfawk files in the > > xastir source (sorry, I'm not volunteering). > > > > Kevin > > KB9MQU > > > > > > > >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Skyler F <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I would like to show some names on my shape files and I remember hearing > >> that I needed to create a DBFAWK file. > >> > >> Can anybody help on creating a DBFAWK file so I can see labels? I am not > >> seeing anything right now with the shape files I downloaded from Open > >> Street Maps > >> > >> Skyler KD0WHB > >> > >> -- > >> Skyler Fennell > >> amsatnet.info > >> KDØWHB > >> [email protected] > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Xastir mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
