[Xastir] Town/Subdivision Names in shapefiles (static Tigermaps)

[Craig Anderson]

At this point, I don't remember what the details were on this.  Soon  
after this I was trying to upgrade xastir to 1.9.5 and it blew up.  I  
haven't been able to get it to compile on my Mac since, regardless of  
which version of xastir.  I was trying to borrow enough from  
Macports.Org to help xastir get working, but Macports had problems,  
and Xastir did not like it, even though I have wiped it all out and  
tried to start over.  Eventually, I got it to compile but when I run  
it, it says "Error: Unresolved inheritance operation" and quits.  For  
the time being, I decided to move to VirtualBox with a Linux VM.  One  
of these days I'll take another run at it; my machine now needs a  
*serious* cleanup.

Craig

On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:39:02PM -0500, we recorded a bogon- 
> computron collision of the <kg5lt at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
>>
>> On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote (offlist):
>>
>>>
>> Also, Craig, N6YXK said that he was having trouble with the secondary
>> road appearance not doing as he expected when zooming in/out.  I did
>> play a bit with the edge.dbfawk and the rule: "/^MTFCC=S12/ . . ."
>> Changing the "display_level" value did make my secondary roads change
>> size/color at different zoom levels.  That may help, Craig.
>
> How puzzling.  You should not be able to change the size and color  
> at different
> zoom levels through dbfawk rules.  You can only turn shapes on or  
> off based on
> zoom.  You can use "display_level" and "label_level" to define the  
> lowest zoom
> level at which a shape (or its label) is displayed, but there  
> shouldn't be any
> way that you can make the color or width change at varying levels.
>
> One could construct an elaborate collection of copies (or symlinks) of
> maps with different per-file dbfawks and use the "min zoom" and "max  
> zoom"
> properties in the map properties dialog to get such an effect, but  
> it would
> make God cry and probably kill a kitten or two.
>
> -- 
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