On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Craig Anderson wrote: > I've downloaded the Tiger 2006 maps from tamu.edu > and installed them and they work fine. But they are basically > all grey, whereas the online maps are multi-colored and are > much easier to use. > > Do I have the 2006 maps mis-configured?
If you wish to enhance the coloring you'll need to tweak the dbfawk file with the matching shapefile signature. Look in the xastir/config/ directory for *.dbfawk files. Those that start with "tgr" are the ones of interest. We appear to have one per Tiger layer. I haven't tried the latest Shapefile downloads so I don't know if the distributed dbfawk files work properly with them. Who's tried this? See README.MAPS, the section starting with "What's in a .dbfawk file?" to find out about dbfawk files. > What data is being > served by the online servers? Can I download a copy of that? I suspect they're using Tiger/Line data, not shapefiles, and probably an older version of the maps that what you just downloaed. Xastir does support Tiger/Line files (via the GDAL/OGR library), but not as well as it does Shapefiles. Shapefiles are our preferred vector format. If you install GDAL/OGR just to do Tiger/Line data, you'll be even more disappointed in the results, both for aesthetic reasons and for speed reasons. Tiger/Line is a terrible format for actually drawing maps, and very slow. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
