I do not have time to do a full reply at the moment, but I have included below a copy below of a message I sent to the Xastir list last month. Should get you started with offline OSM maps anyway.
Let me know if you run into problems and I'll reply when I can, or perhaps someone with more knowledge of this than me will chime in. Apologies for top posting, but I'm really running late for something! Kevin KB9MQU ***** From: Kevin Ratcliff <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:23 AM Subject: Re: [Xastir] How to create DBFAWK To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]> 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 Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Kurt <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, > > Tiger 2006 maps have gone away. I still have a copy of few of them around. > > Cloudmade version of the shapefiles not longer can be had. > > What's a body to do along with this link on the Wiki? > ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2009/ > > Just unzip all the files helter-skelter and move them into > /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/tiger2009? > > I've downloaded a couple of states but wonder how to proceed from there. > There are a pile of files > that are listed below the county folders. Are these important? (listing > below) > > What I'm looking for is a data set that's comparable to the old Cloudmade > shapefile maps. > Is it possible? Yeah, I know one cannot cache and display OSM maps directly > in Xastir. > So be it, but what about some alternative offline strategies? > > Oh, I built a new install of Xastir-2.0.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I got support > in for everything > that's displayed at the ./configure summary including map caching. Kurt > KC9LDH > > File:tl_2009_17_bg00.zip 16588 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_cbsa.zip 653 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_cd108.zip 1323 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_cd111.zip 1330 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_county.zip 1528 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_county00.zip 1509 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_countyec.zip 1513 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_cousub.zip 5692 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_cousub00.zip 5759 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_csa.zip 219 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_elsd.zip 1681 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_elsd00.zip 1671 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_metdiv.zip 60 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_mil.zip 27 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_place.zip 4618 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_place00.zip 4401 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_placeec.zip 6809 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_puma100.zip 889 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_puma500.zip 1915 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_scsd.zip 901 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_scsd00.zip 893 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_sldl.zip 2260 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_sldl00.zip 2115 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_sldu.zip 1753 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_sldu00.zip 1579 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_state.zip 155 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_state00.zip 155 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_tabblock.zip 161960 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_tabblock00.zip 150158 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_tract00.zip 8598 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_unsd.zip 3196 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_unsd00.zip 3231 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_zcta3.zip 2449 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > File:tl_2009_17_zcta5.zip 15681 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
