[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Brian Webster]

Can somepbody post a screen shot or two of the new tiger maps?



Thank You,
Brian N2KGC


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org]On Behalf Of Lee Bengston
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 11:30 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps


On 4/18/09, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> I assume this is not normal?
>>
>> No DBFAWK signature for
>> Tiger-2008/TX/48113_Dallas_County/tl_2008_48113_bg00.shp!  Using default.
>
> That is normal.  Disable the maps that do that, or remove them if
> you want to just select the entire directory.  We don't have dbfawk
> files for those maps, so they're not currently designed to be used
> in the map rendering for Tiger 2008 maps.

Thanks, Curt.  And Kudos to the guys that did the dbfawk work on the
2008 shapefiles.  They look much better than the 2006 versions - at
least the maps in my area do.

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX
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