[Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

[Gerry Creager]

Neither ArcGIS nor ArcView stores color information in the shapefiles 
directly.

As has already been pointed out: dbfawk.

gerry

Jim Tolbert wrote:
> I received the shapefiles ( from ESRI) from the local County Surveyor's 
> office yesterday and Xastir read them right in!!  It is beautiful.
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> The map tech thought that all the colors, symbols, and road names were 
> included in the files.  When I loaded them in, the only filled layer was 
> the lakes and the fill was fushia.  All the roads were black.  All the 
> building locations were red Xs.  No road names were visible at any zoom 
> level.
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> For each category of object ( lakes, roads, buildings, driveways), she 
> gave me four files (.dbf, .prj, .shp, and .shx).  I opened the roads  
> .dbf file in a spreadsheet and the road labels are there.
> 
> The map tech said that on her system, the lakes were blue, each type of 
> road was a different color ( 5 types of roads), the building locations 
> were round dots, and each road, lake, & river was labeled.  It appears 
> that all the options in the map chooser properties and map configure are 
> "on".
> Does anyone know, can I change colors and symbols and show labels now, 
> or is this something that the map tech has to do before she dumps we a 
> copy of the maps?  If it is something she should do, does anyone have a 
> suggestion as to what to tell her to change from what she did the first 
> time?
> 
> Many thanx...............  jt
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> Jim Tolbert
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