[Xastir] Tiger2006 maps problem?

[Craig Anderson]

Hi Tom,
	I have PCRE installed.  The error message I get is:

No DBFAWK signature for tiger2006/AK/tgr020132shppolyA.shp!  Using  
default.

I tried changing the filenames around to make it happy
but that didn't seem to help (or I couldn't figure out the
naming scheme).  I started out with TGR02013.shp and
I added the "2shppolyA" to the name for the "tgr2shppoly.dbfawk"
script.

How do you get the right dbfawk script to work on the
correct data file?

Craig

On May 8, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> 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