[Xastir] Tiger2006 maps problem?

[Craig Anderson]

Thanks very much Tom.  I've been downloading
and converting the west-coast states myself, and
it is a long process.  I still don't know if I'm doing it
right.  :-)  Though your previous directions helped
a lot.  I must say that the maps are the hardest part
of Xastir.  If there were some way to make that easier
it would go a long way to increasing the usefulness of
xastir.   Though I realize that a lot of the "barrier to entry"
is just a learning curve about mapping systems in
general.

Thanks very much for your efforts,
Craig
n6yxk

On May 7, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:16:59AM -0600, we recorded a bogon- 
> computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
>> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:12:51PM -0700, we recorded a bogon- 
>> computron collision of the <acraiga at pacbell.net> flavor, containing:
>>>  Hi all,
>>>  	I've been beating my head against the wall of the
>>>  Tiger 2006 maps that I downloaded from xastir.tamu.edu
>>>  (which seems to be down right now).  I get several things
>>>  that don't work well about those maps.  One is a lack of
>>>  colors, the other is no fills anywhere.  No water fills, no
>>>  parks, no built-up city areas, nothing.  I've tried every option
>>>  I can play with, including messing with the dbfawk files and
>>>  I get nothing like the maps I get from the Online/tigermap.geo
>>>  server.
>>
>> If I recall correctly, the person who generated those maps only  
>> generated
>> the polyline versions, not the polygon versions.
>
> I just checked.  Gerry pointed me at aprs.tamu.edu (anonymous FTP  
> site) and
> I see that indeed only the line files for the TIGER 2006 files were  
> ever
> generated.
>
> I am currently in the process of downloading all of the TIGER 2006  
> Second
> Edition data and processing it --- my process will generate both  
> the line and
> polygon data.  This process will take several days, as the polygon  
> generation
> is slow and there are many, many files to convert.
>
> Once I finish, I'll get with Gerry and figure out how to upload  
> them to
> aprs.tamu.edu.  Watch this space for an announcment when I finish  
> and the
> files are available.
>
> Gerry says that the xastir.tamu.edu machine crashed hard and is not  
> back yet.
> No apparent ETA to its return.
>
> -- 
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