[Xastir] Slashgeo | TIGER Data Finally Out SHP Format

[Tom Hayward]

I decided to learn dbfawk using the trial by fire method. I spent
today working on a dbfawk file for these new Tiger Shapefiles. I
started with tgr2shp.dbfawk, but had to modify almost everything.
Here's what I came up with: http://tomh.us/tgrshplines.dbfawk

Here's a screen shot of it in use: http://tomh.us/snapshot.png

I only worked on the All Lines (by county) package, and didn't mess
with labels and polygons, but it displays roads and water decently.

This documentation was very useful:
Tiger Shapefile documentation: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshprl.pdf
CFCC => MTFCC conversion:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/luca2010/luca_luca_br.txt
And of course: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK

I hope this is beneficial to the group. I'm still learning dbfawk, so
let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement.

Tom KD7LXL

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:03:16AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <esarfl at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>
> > Download link: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/national-files
>  >
>  > Now how do I make water lines a different color from road lines? Is
>  > that what dbfawk does? Can a generic configuration file be distributed
>  > for this (and how would I go about doing this)?
>
>  A new set of dbfawk files specific for these shapefiles will have to be
>  written.  As the shapefiles are only a day old, nobody's gotten around to
>  doing that yet.
>
>  You could start from the file "tgr2shp.dbfawk" and "tgr2shppoly.dbfawk" and
>  adapt them to the new shapefiles if you care to try it out.  I was planning to
>  do just that eventually, but am too busy to do it any time this week.
>
>  --
>  Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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>  "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
>