[Xastir] dbfawk for 2003 Tiger Maps

[James Jolin]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:31:28AM -0500, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <jdw at eng.uah.edu> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> 
>>On Apr 30, 2004, at 12:53 AM, Josh Keller wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there an already done dbfawk file available for the 2003 Tiger Maps
>>>that has waterways filled in, interstates in a different color, and
>>>street names displayed when zoomed in?
>>
>>I'm using this one http://www.swcp.com/~russo/shape_web/tgr2shp.dbfawk 
>>with the Tiger data converted to shapefiles from ESRI and it does 
>>pretty much what you are asking (which happens to be pretty much what I 
>>want, too).
> 
> 
> If you're using the CVS version of xastir you'll already have "tgr2shp.dbfawk".
> That'll do most of what you want (although perhaps the colors aren't what
> you'd like).  If you're using some release tarball that predates the inclusion
> of the file then you can download it from the site mentioned above.  
> 
> It is not possible without a lot of work to get the waterways filled in, due
> to how the tiger data codes areas ---  the short story on that is that tiger
> files have the feature codes for polylines and areas are in separate files, 
> and when ogr2ogr does the conversion to shapefile format all the codes that 
> would indicate what areas to fill are missing from the dbf file.  There was
> someone working on figuring out how to fix that, but it hasn't been done yet.
> 
Tom,
With regard to the tgr2shp "file" above.  I can't find anything to 
download...just a whole bunch of lines with various commands, etc.  What 
  am I missing here?
Jim wa9arb