On the county files I think you are correct. I'm now downloading the
new county files (2 or 3 anyway) and plan to play with them a bit. I
would really like the smaller roads to go away as I zoom out, it gets
awfully crowded on that screen when every single lane, dirt road and
path is rendered at every level.
The other thing I want to play with is coloring the county boarders,
Platte county and Clay county in Missouri are my primary concern and
if I give each a different color boarder it will help me a little. I'm
kinda having fun with this stuff, it's someone cryptic but with a
little patience and a lot of assistance from wonderful folks like you
maybe I can answer questions on the list too. LOL
Thanks again for all the help Tom.
On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-
computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:27:00PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-
computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing:
sig:
MODULE:FILE:CENID:POLYID:STATECU:COUNTYCU:TRACT:BLOCK:BLOCKSUFCU:RS_A1:AIANHHFPCU:AIANHHCU:AIHHTLICU:ANRCCU:AITSCECU:AITSCU:CONCITCU:COUSUBCU:SUBMCDCU:PLACECU:SDELMCU:SDSECCU:SDUNICU:RS_A20:RS_A21:RS_A22:CDCU:ZCTA5CU:ZCTA3CU:RS_A4:RS_A5:RS_A6:RS_A7:RS_A8:RS_A9:CBSACU:CSACU:NECTACU:CNECTACU:METDIVCU:NECTADIVCU:RS_A14:RS_A15:RS_A16:RS_A17:RS_A18:RS_A19:STATE:COUNTY:BLKGRP:AIANHHFP:AIANHH:AIHHTLI:ANRC:AITSCE:AITS:CONCIT:COUSUB:SUBMCD:PLACE:SDELM:SDSEC:SDUNI:MSACMSA:PMSA:NECMA:CD106:CD108:PUMA5:PUMA1:ZCTA5:ZCTA3:TAZ:TAZCOMB:UA:UR:VTD:SLDU:SLDL:UGA:POLYLONG:POLYLAT:WATER:LAND:SOURCE:CFCC:LANAME:LALONG:LALAT:FILLER
This signature is the signature of the old TIGER/Line files from
before 2006,
so it is being rendered according to rules in the
tgr2shppoly.dbfawk file
I mentioned. The newer ones from aprs.tamu.edu are from after 2006
and use
a slightly different file, tgr2shppoly_2006.dbfawk.
This, by the way, might be the reason you were unable to have any
effect
on the rendering of the shapefiles with your dbfawk tweaks --- since
there
is already a signature-based file (tgr2shppoly.dbfawk) in the config
directory that matches, your file might not even be read. The only
way
to override the signature-based file is to have a per-file dbfawk for
every file you want to be rendered differently --- to do that, you
create
a dbfawk file with the same base name as your shapefile, in the same
directory
(e.g. "BumFrak_County.shp" and "BumFrak_County.dbfawk" in the same
directory).
When there's a .dbfawk in the same directory with the same name,
that one is
used instead of the global signature-based one in the config
directory, but
the signatures still have to match. It sounds like yours did not in
your
previous attempts.
--
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
"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R.
Bach
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