[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:07:56PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:21:38AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > 
> > Thanks to the below mentioned people we now have Tiger 2008
> > streetmap capability in Xastir...  And it's really fast!  If you're
> > used to the Online Tigermap server, the speed of this will really
> > blow you away.  It's also great for taking Xastir on the road where
> > you don't have internet access.  Please note the special
> > instructions below for setting up the layering so that roads aren't
> > covered up.  Perhaps we can automate that part soon.
> 
> I'm really puzzled here, because I have downloaded a single county of
> the 2008 data and am getting mismatches in dbf signature between the dbf files
> and the dbfawk files that are supposed to match them.  Do all of these work 
> for you?
> 
> So far, downloading the data for Brown County, Texas, none of the files 
> have signatures that match their dbfawk files as committed.

Never mind.  Turns out that I was getting the 2007 data.

The URL in the dbfawk files took me to the 2007 download page, and those
files didn't match the dbfawk rules.

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