[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Lee Bengston]

On 4/17/09, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Here's the commit message from a few minutes ago:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Modified Files:
>          Makefile.am
> Added Files:
>          tabblock.dbfawk pointlm.dbfawk featnames.dbfawk edge.dbfawk
>          cousub.dbfawk cousub00.dbfawk areawater.dbfawk arealm.dbfawk
> Log Message:
> Adding the dbfawk files worked on by Richard Polivka, N6NKO, Craig
> Anderson, N6YXK, and Dale Seaburg, KG5LT, which help to nicely
> render 2008 Tiger Shapeline files.
>
> A note from Craig about layering:
>
>    "...use "vi" on the map_index.sys file while xastir is not running.
>    Once you are editing the file, use the following 3 commands in "vi"
>    to change the layers.  This assumes that, like with my xastir, new
>    maps get added into the list at layer 1000.
>
>    :g/tabblock/s/01000/00995/
>    :g/pointlm/s/01000/00996/
>    :g/arealm/s/01000/00997/
>
>    (translation: global search throughout the file for lines with
>    "arealm" and substitute on that line for "01000", a "00997")
>
>    This moves the tabblock (& tabblock00) files, pointlm files, and
>    arealm files down underneath the roads maps.  Otherwise the roads
>    can get covered up by urban background coloring.  Or you can do
>    this through the GUI interface as well."
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Getting back to the original announcement, wouldn't it be possible for
those who don't want to recompile to just add the new dbfawk files to
their /usr/local/share/xastir/config directory, download the maps,
re-index, and edit their map_index.sys file?

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX