Thanks! Now everything makes sense, thats why I was having so much issues, I was trying to edit the .dbf file!
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Jason Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
