[Xastir] Mapping

[Stephen Brown Jr]

Well I managed to download the shapefiles for my county based off of the
Tiger map data from
ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/Maps/TIGER/xastir.tamu.edu/2004/counties/TN/

Inside the zip file I see this:
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   2516491 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.dbf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   1368321 2005-02-27 07:38
TN_Carter_County_Poly.dbf
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   1746272 2005-02-27 07:38
TN_Carter_County_Poly.shp
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     25444 2005-02-27 07:38
TN_Carter_County_Poly.shx
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root       257 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.prj
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   1700828 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shp
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    103820 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shx

I unzipped these all to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and started up xastir,
and found the corresponding shapefile in the maps chooser menu and was able
to get the map to show up in xastir. Not the prettiest thing in the world,
but at least it's working.

Reading over this page
http://www.swcp.com/~russo/shape_web/tutorial.htmland it appears that
there are a lot of options you can configure, but a
little of this was over my head at this point.

So now that I have some data, I would like to make it look like the original
tiger data and dont really know where to begin? What are all those different
files for and how can I start editing this to my liking?

I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and
Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow use
that data as well if xastir supports it?

I have to say this is the most I have ever used xastir and it is the most
advanced APRS program I have ever used. Good job devs. I got Festival
working and that is just utterly amazing, it was so cool to hear my messages
read off to me!

73's
Stephen
N1VLV




On 11/9/06, Darryl Gibson <n2diy at losch.net > wrote:
>
> Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> >
> > What would be the best option based on what I want? Also, is there a
> good
> > tutorial or reference that explains all these different types of maps
> > available?
>
> I'm in the same position as you are, so I'll be following this thread
> closely.
>
> Curious, I have a copy of Street Atlas, can I extract map files from that?
>
>
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