[Xastir] map levels don't work

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 05:06:28PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <wes at kd4rdb.com> flavor, containing:
> Hmmm... maybe PCRE is the problem?
> 
[...]
> Building with ShapeLib ............ : yes
> Building with pcre ................ : no
> Building with dbfawk .............. : no

Yep.  If you're not using ESRI's Tiger conversion, and have not installed
pcre, just about any shapefile you download will be rendered as black lines
no matter what they're meant to represent (there are exceptions, but the
2003 TIGER/Line data that Derrick converted won't be among them).

See if installing PCRE and reconfiguring/remaking xaster improves matters 
for you.

> Quoting Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:28:48PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > > On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:04:28PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > collision of the <wes at kd4rdb.com> flavor, containing:
> > > >
> > > > I finally got MAKE to show shapelib, and completed the compile and
> > install, but
> > > > now map levels don't work, nor do colors... water, rivers and streams are
> > all
> > > > black with no blue.  Could it be that I've installed shapelib in a place
> > that
> > > > MAKE finds, but another version of shapelib is found first in the path
> > when
> > > > called?
> > >
> > > What sort of shapefiles are you attempting to display?
> >
> > I should clarify why I ask these two questions:
> >
> > If you're not using a set of shapefiles that are already set up for use
> > in xastir (i.e. either hardcoded in map_shp.c or set up with dbfawk files),
> > you get the default behavior --- thin black lines, no level dependence.
> >
> > With dbfawk enabled, there needs to be a matching dbfawk file that describes
> > how the data
> >
> > There is a small (and growing) number of dbfawk files installed along with
> > xastir that allow some of the more popular shapefiles to be displayed
> > in ways that some people thing looks good  (and now that I check, that means
> > converted TIGER/Line data and weather alert counties).
> >
> > If you are using shapefiles that don't match those dbfawk files and have
> > dbfawk enabled, you'll see what you describe.  You'd have to make your own
> > dbfawk file to tell xastir how to display your map data.
> >
> > Without dbfawk is another matter.
> >
> > > Did you install PCRE and enable dbfawk?
> >
> > And my reason for asking this is that if you don't have PCRE installed or
> > configure with "--without-dbfawk" then the only shapefile maps that will show
> > up in color and respecting map level are the TIGER/Line shapefiles from ESRI
> > (not the ones converted from 2003 TIGER/Line files), and a finite number of
> > other types --- the coloring and such is hardwired into xastir in those
> > cases,
> > and the choice of what hardwired set of display choices to use is based on
> > the file names (i.e. it looks for the patterns known to be used by the ESRI
> > TIGER/Line set --- which means you mustn't rename them after downloading).
> > Without PCRE and dbfawk the only way to get new types of shapefiles other
> > than
> > the types that are hard coded to display the way you want them is to add code
> > to map_shp.c.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY     SAR502  DM64ux         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://www.qsl.net/~km5vy/
> >  "Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
> >                                       -- John Kenneth Galbraith
> >

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Tom Russo    KM5VY     SAR502  DM64ux         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://www.qsl.net/~km5vy/
 "Politics consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
                                      -- John Kenneth Galbraith