[Xastir] shapefile maps?

[Alan Crosswell]

County maps may also have different metadata from Tigher maps.  I am working on 
code to accomodate that which will substantially generalize the way shapefile 
DBF data is handled.  It will be done Real Soon Now.
73 de Alan N2YGK

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Glen Briggs [iso-8859-1] KB?RPJ wrote:
> 
> 
>>anyone have locations of good shape files maps.. currently I'm using the
>>counties, lakes, and interstates, know of any others?
> 
> 
> Yea.  There are lots of others:
> 
> See README.MAPS and the Features link on the Xastir home page.
> 
> See the geographynetwork.com web site.
> 
> See the NOAA web sites.
> 
> See the esri.com web site (tigerline maps converted to shapefiles
> and lots of other shapefile maps, they invented and documented the
> map format).  I use the Tigerline->Shapefile maps mostly.
> 
> Your counties GIS department may have ESRI Shapefile formatted maps
> of your county.  Sometimes these need to be converted from state
> plane coordinate system to lat/long.  See README.MAPS for the
> procedure.
>