[Xastir] shapproj error

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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.

In fact if you don't use dbfawk and Tom's tgr2shp the census maps look
pretty sad. About the only problem I noticed (and it has nothing to do
with Tom's dbfawk script) is the road labels look pretty sad. I'm almost
tempted to integrate FreeType support into draw_rotated_label_text_common
except that I have no time for it just now.

> 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).
>