[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

As being one of the instigators of this project, I only use the following:

edges
areawater
arealm
pointlm

There also was previous a question concerning layering. I created a 
directory in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps called "tiger2008". Under this 
are four directories, "edges", "areawater", "arealm", and "pointlm". 
Inside each directory are the files for the areas that I want to cover. 
So when it came to layering, all I had to do was assign the layer 
numbers to the subdirectories and not to the individual files and away I 
go. Edges was always on top, ...lm's in the middle, and areawater on the 
bottom of the stack. The WX radar was always below this stack and the 
SBW stuff was always on top.

I have not been able to test the latest CVS to the fullest on my laptop 
as I do not have all the TIGER files that I would need on since I 
installed the larger HD. I also have the original reworks of the 
dbfawk's for tiger2008 still on my system as well so I can compare the 
CVS release to what I had.

Doing the shapefile research and just trying to cover all angles was a 
fun piece of research and some said a bit of overkill but it was 
necessary as a self-documenting file and process in attempt to present a 
quality piece of work to the community.

May the community enjoy.

73's from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


William McKeehan wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggested set of files that we should download for the best
> results?
>
> For example, are the 2000 files necessary?
>
> My guess is that we need the following at a minimum:
> - All Lines (*edges*) - this appears to be the primary file for roads
> - Area Hydrography (*areawater*) - this appears to be lakes and rivers
>
> But I'm not sure about these things.
> - Area Landmark (*arealm*)
> - Point Landmark (*pointlm*)
> - Current Block (*tabblock*)
> - Current County Subdivision (*consub*)
> - Feature Names Relationship File (*featnames*)
>
> Thanks!
>