[Xastir] dbfawk files for Tiger-2008 shapefiles

[Keith Kaiser]

After loading all the dbfawk files my map still is just lines and  
little red x's. I have no color fills, street names, nothing above and  
beyond the basic map outlines.

Thanks for the explanation on the reindex thing...

On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> Thanks for doing these Lee, I know everyone will appreciate it.
>>
>> I dropped them in my /usr/local/share/xastir/config and restarted  
>> Xastir. But it doesn't seem to have made any difference. Do I need  
>> to reload Xastir? Do the ./configure, make, and make install again?  
>> I did reindex all maps but it didn't help.
>
> No on reloading Xastir.  You just need to restart it.  No on
> configure/make/make install.
>
> As far as reindexing maps, if you do the "reindex new" option, it
> works off timestamps...  If the timestamp on the file is not newer
> than your map_index.sys file, it won't reindex them.  Sometimes if
> you grab archives from the 'net and unzip the maps onto your system
> you'll get old timestamps and the "reindex new" option won't catch
> them.  In that case you either need to "touch" the files (updating
> the timestamp on them) and "reindex new", or "reindex all".
>
> Are the maps appearing in your Map Chooser?  If so, then you don't
> need to reindex 'cuz you already have them indexed.
>
> Exactly what is not working for you?
>
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73's
Keith Kaiser
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