[Xastir] Tiger2006 maps problem?

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:47:20PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <acraiga at pacbell.net> flavor, containing:
>  Hi Tom and all,
>  	I got the Tiger 2006 maps to work and they have
>  fills and colors.  This is on Linux Fedora Core 6.  But
>  I must say that the Online/Tiger2003 maps on a Mac
>  look gorgeous!  They have nice colors and complete
>  fills (oceans that are all blue, as opposed to the Tiger
>  2006 oceans which only go about 3 miles off the coast).
>  Is that because it's on a Mac or are the Tiger2003 maps
>  just much better?  Can I find out the settings used for the
>  Tiger2003 maps?
> 
>  I guess my real question is how can I get the Tiger2006
>  maps to look like the Online/Tiger2003 maps?

You can't really.  The on-line tiger maps are rendered by a completely different
engine on the web, and xastir can only approximate them.

>  On May 9, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:28:57AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron 
> > collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> >> So what we're gonna do is let Jason build all the rest of the files with 
> >> his
> >> new GDAL, and I'll commit a new dbfawk file with the new signature.
> >
> > I just committed a new dbfawk file to the xastir repository --- it's
> > "tgr2shppoly_2006.dbfawk."  You can get it in anon CVS now.
> >
> > This should make the shapefiles you generated match a dbfawk signature and
> > display with colors and fills.
> >
> > -- 
> > 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