[Xastir] shapproj error

[Guy Story, KC5GOI]

Things got busy again.  Curt, I will update via cvs and read over the Map
Pointers page an let you know.

Thanks.

Guy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Guy Story, KC5GOI" <kc5goi at kc5goi.net>
Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] shapproj error


> 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?
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U     archer at eskimo dot com
> Arlington, WA, USA http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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