[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 41, Issue 52

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

Chip,

When I did my rewrite of the dbfawk files to match the latest tigermaps, 
I was dealing with several documents that the census document wrote 
involving the translation between the old codes and new codes for what 
the element meant in the shapefile. I broke out everything and made a 
line for each characteristic. The documentation was not the most 
exacting but at least they had a reasonably good cross-reference table 
that made the job easier.

The same header appears several times because the same header 
designation is used in different shapefiles.

Plus, having all the headers broken out would make customizing the 
dbfawk files easier for anyone who had special requirements and needed 
to provide tweaks to match their particular situation.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


C. Griffin wrote:
> Something else I don't understand. I've been working on setting up, 
> and tweaking the new dbfawk files. Why do more than one of them 
> include the same coding? For example,
>
> These lines (I've modified them)
>> /^MTFCC=H20/ {filled=1; fill_style=2; fill_stipple=2; color=117; 
>> fill_color=117; label_color=33; display_level=1024;next}
>> /^MTFCC=H30/ {filled=1; fill_style=2; fill_stipple=2; color=117; 
>> fill_color=117; label_color=33; display_level=1024;next}
>
> These lines are in the following files:
> areawater.dbfawk
> edge.dbfawk
> featnames.dbfawk
>
> Also, there are red "X"s on the map, but I can't figure out where they 
> are being controlled. Seems like one of the dbfawks should be 
> responsible, but I can't see it. They never have labels at any zoom 
> level, so I can't determine what they are.
>
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 00:02, Dale Seaburg wrote:
>
>> On Apr 19, 2009, at 10:17 PM, C. Griffin wrote:
>>
>>> Can the dbfawk file be in either config directory and work? (/usr/
>>> local/share/xastir/config OR ~/.xastir/config)
>>
>>
>> Chip, they go in the /usr/local/share/xastir/config folder. I've 
>> never seen them in the home folder. OTOH, give it a try. Ya'never 
>> know until you try.
>
>
>
> -- Chip
> n1mie at mac.com
>
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