On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:34:47PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Is there any way to get a file created so it displays the same as the on > line tiger maps do within Xastir? That format looks great to me and I would > love to duplicate it with local tiger files.
Not really. The closest we can get is with the TGR2006_SE data and the dbfawk files we already have (or to tweak them a little bit to improve rendering style). To render precisely like the on-line tiger maps would require a different rendering engine, which is not a simple thing to do -- Xastir pretty much just uses X11 drawing primitives to render vector maps, and it would be a major rewrite of xastir to get it to render maps closer to the way various on-line mapping sites do. All we can do is mimic color schemes and line styles as best we can, which is what the existing dbfawk files do. There is a growing number of open-source map rendering libraries out there, but to adapt xastir to use them would practically require a complete rewrite of xastir. Xastir's rendering is pretty deeply hard-wired. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Tom Russo > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 1:20 PM > To: Robert C. Rogers > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Xastir] DBFAWK and map symbols > > > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:38:04AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > It took a while, but I'm now making dbfawk files of my own. > > > > I saw in the file # symbol - 3 char 'TIO': table, ID, overlay > > > > So far I've not found any info on this function... I'm hoping it's a way > > to display Interstate/US Hwy/State Hwy symbols with the numbers as the > > overlay.... Reading the names on the map is a bit tricky when on the > road. > > No, it's not. There is currently no way to symbolize roads using standard > highway symbols in xastir. > > If you set "symbol" in a dbfawk rule, it allows a point feature (and only > a point feature) to be symbolized by standard APRS symbols like the ones > you can give to your station or to objects/items. Table, ID and overlay > are the character's you'd transmit in your posit (e.g. "/- " for a house, > or "\#S" for a new n-N paradigm digipeater). > > That field is typically used when you generate hand-rolled point shapefiles > and want to symbolize them somehow (see README.MAPS for an example of how > to do it). > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and > then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
