[Xastir] Tiger2006 maps problem?

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:41:55AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <acraiga at pacbell.net> flavor, containing:
>  Hi Tom,
>  	I hope your processing works better than mine.
>  All the maps I generated had no fills and no colors.
> 
>  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  :-)

Hard to say what's going on for you.  Do you have PCRE installed?  If you
don't, shapefiles will look terrible.

>  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.
> >
> > -- 
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 
> > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get 
> > is
> >  one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
> >  oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick

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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://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
 one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
 oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick