[Xastir] Mapping

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote:

> Well, it so happens that there are already some dbfawk files for the
> TIGER shapefiles written and in place in the standard xastir
> distribution, so you don't really have to start from scratch the way
> Tom's tutorials walk you through.

He also has to have "dbfawk" listed in his Help-About dialog.  If
not, then he probably needs to install the PCRE library and/or
Shapelib (but we know he already has Shapelib) in order to enable
the dbfawk functionality.

> Talk to the vendors about that.  Mapping programs are generally
> somewhere between extremely unhelpful and hostile about use of their
> data by some other software.

Except that MapInfo is a GIS program, and there is support for some
of its file formats in the GDAL/OGR library.  If he's talking vector
formats, he'll probably be able to use them.

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