On Dec 13, 2007, at 22:20, Tom Russo wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:14:18PM -0500, we recorded a collision
of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
How come I can't get fills to work on my shapefiles? I recently
downloaded the latest and greatest tigerline shape files (the ones
named New_London_County.* for example) from ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/
pub/TIGER_2006/.
I presume you mean the "TIGER_2006_SE" directory, which is really
the latest and greatest. The ones in TIGER2006 only contain
polyline data, and aren't named by county, but by FIPS number.
I've got them working and I've tweaked the dbfawk the way I want
it pretty well. But I have a number of questions/issues.
The zip files contain both polyline and polygon shapefiles. They
contain different features, and are rendered using different dbfawk
files. The ones in the Polylines directory are roads and such, the
ones in the Polygons directory are the ones that could be filled.
The polylines use tgr2shp.dbfawk and the polygons use
tgr2shppoly.dbfawk.
Did you install both?
I didn't before. I re-downloaded the whole kit and kaboodle. I
installed them all into a Tiger_SE directory. In that directory are
directories for each state with it's polylines and polygons
directories. I restared Xastir and immediately re-indexed all maps.
I've fiddled with things and still can't get filled polygons. I
recompiled Xastir to the latest CVS to get the recently updated
dbfawk files. That still didn't help (after which I went back to my
tgr2shp.dbfawk since I don't like the other setup much. Everything
works fine except that with the polygons not filled I can't get the
water to look like water, it looks like rivers shaped like lakes and
etc. Particularly annoying since I live near very large bodies of
water (Atlantic Ocean, etc). I have not edited tgr2shppoly.dbfawk or
tgr2shppoly_2006.dbfawk. I've tried changing the auto to yes on the
fills. I've tried mapping just polygons to ensure they're not
covered. no dice on any attempt.
-- Chip
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