[Xastir] shapproj error

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Guy Story, KC5GOI wrote:

> I am trying to make the shpproj utilty so I can hopefully get the shape file
> for Denton County to display.  When I try to run make from the contrib
> directory I get the following:

You shouldn't need shpproj to do what you want.  Look at the "Map
Pointers" link off the www.xastir.org page, click on the link for
"2003 Tiger Maps" or some-such, and download the proper ones for
your county/state.

You'll probably want to compile in the pcre library and use the
"--with-dbfawk" flag to configure, then you'll have the latest
(2003) street maps for your area.

You'll also need to update to the latest Tom Russo tgr2shp.dbfawk
file so that these maps look ok in Xastir.  The latest CVS Xastir
has that file in it, or you can get it from Tom's site (listed in
README.MAPS).


> [root at kc5goi-gw contrib]# pwd
> /sdf3/hdc6/shapelib-1.2.10/contrib
> [root at kc5goi-gw contrib]# make
> cc -g -I.. -DPROJ4 -D_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DDEBUG -DDEBUG2  -c shpgeo.c
> In file included from shpgeo.c:64:
> shpgeo.h:70:22: proj_api.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [shpgeo.o] Error 1
> [root at kc5goi-gw contrib]#
>
> This is a RH 7.3 system.  Xastir 1.3.1 runs like a charm and I can use the
> tigermaps when connected online.  My goal is to download certain counties to
> the hard drive like I did with WinAPRS.  I downloaded and copied
> tgr48121cty00.shp to my maps directory, but the map list will not display it
> even afer reindexing or restarting Xastir.

With regard to that particular problem, make sure you have Shapelib
installed (but you still don't need "shproj") and then re-run the
configure/make/make install for Xastir.

Have you used Shapefiles before and know that you have things
compiled into Xastir properly to use them?

Is there some problem with datum/projection that you're seeing?

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