[Xastir] dbfawk files for Tiger-2008 shapefiles

Keith Kaiser wa0tjt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 23:58:51 EDT 2009


DBFAWK is compiled in, this is what is in my "About Xastir"

Xastir v1.9.5
Compiled: Thu Oct 16 09:21:12 PDT 2008

Libraries used: GraphicsMagick ShapeLib PCRE rtree libcurl
@(#)Motif Version 2.2.2i (2.1.32)
GraphicsMagick 1.3.5 2009-01-26 Q8 http://.....
etc.

Just to verify I have things placed correctly, this is what I have.

Where things go;

/usr/local/share/xastir/config
	tabblock.dbfawk
	pointlm.dbfawk
	featnames.dbfawk
	edge.dbfawk
	arealm.dbfawk
	cousub00.dbfawk
	areawater.dbfawk
	cousub.dbfawk

~/.xastir/config
	update-index.pl
	map_index.sys

/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
	MISSOURI
		29165_Platte_County
			tl_2008_29165_edges Folder
				tl_2008_29165_edges.shp
	KANSAS
	national
	Online
	etc.


On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Lee Bengston wrote:

> On 4/21/09, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:22:28AM -0500, we recorded a bogon- 
>> computron
>> collision of the <wa0tjt at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>>> Lee,
>>>
>>> Thanks for doing these Lee, I know everyone will appreciate it.
>>>
>>> I dropped these 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.
>>
>> This might seem obvious, but do you in fact have DBFAWK compiled  
>> in?  To do
>> so you must have PCRE and its development libraries installed.   
>> Check the
>> About box.  Does it say that DBFAWK is enabled?
>
> Keith,
>
> The last configure output you posted a week ago looked like this...
>
>  xastir 1.9.5 has been configured to use the following
>  options and external libraries:
>
>  MINIMUM OPTIONS:
>   ShapeLib (Vector maps) ................. : yes
>
>  RECOMMENDED OPTIONS:
>  -n   GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick (Raster maps) :
>  no
>   pcre (Shapefile customization) ......... : no
>   dbfawk (Shapefile customization) ....... : no
>   rtree indexing (Shapefile speedups) .... : yes
>   map caching (Raster map speedups) ...... : no
>   internet map retrieval ................. : yes (libcurl)
>
>  FOR THE ADVENTUROUS:
>   AX25 (Linux Kernel I/O Drivers) ........ : no
>   libproj (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
>   GeoTiff (USGS Topos & Aerial Photos) ... : no
>   Festival (Text-to-speech) .............. : no
>   GDAL/OGR (Obtuse map formats) .......... : no
>   GPSMan/gpsmanshp (GPS downloads) ....... : no
>
> There were some later messages that implied that GraphicsMagick was
> fixed, which got your online maps working.  I suspect Tom is right
> that dbfawk is not compiled in.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
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73's
Keith Kaiser
wa0tjt at gmail.com






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