[Xastir] ESRI shapefiles and dbfawk

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:53:35AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > FWIW, I used the attached dbfawk file on the Alberta shapefile testawk seemed
> > to show it was working for labeling freeways and setting their lanes/color.
> > It should give you a starting point for further work.
>
> First revision: If you add the line
>
> /^RTENAME1EN=None/ {next}
>
> right before the line that scans for other RTENAME1EN matches, you won't
> get all those streets named "None".

Please, once you guys get it thrashed out, or even earlier, add that
file to Xastir.

A dbfawk file for free street maps of Canada and pointers to the
downloadable maps in our docs would make a lot of people happy.

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