[Xastir] ESRI shapefiles and dbfawk

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:46:26AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:06:21AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jewen at shaw.ca> flavor, containing:
> 
> > I have guessed at a few possible patterns, none of which work.
> > /^NATRDCLASS=FREEWAY/ { lanes=4;color=4; next}

BTW, once you know what fields there are (through dbfinfo) and what
the values of those fields can be (through supplied metadata/users guides
or by detective work), it can help to use the program 'testawk' that's built 
(but not installed) when you build xastir.

There is some help in README.MAPS about how to use testawk.  What this 
program will do is run your dbfawk file over a shapefile and dump out
the various variable settings it'll use for each shape found.

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