[Xastir] readme.maps questions

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote:

> More newbie questions concerning converting Tiger/Line data files into 
> Shapefiles for xastir's use.

I haven't played with very recent Tiger/Line data, but I remember
they were going to be releasing in Shapefile format directly instead
of the Tiger/Line database dump files they used before.  Perhaps
that's what you have downloaded.  If you have .dbf/.shp/.shx files
downloaded from their site, their stuff is already in Shapefile
format and doesn't need to be converted.

Whether Xastir is set up to read that particular format is another
question.  Xastir has to have Shapefiles in lat/long unprojected
coordinates, and you'll most likely need a dbfawk file to be created
that is specific to their new format before labels are rendered
properly (There's no standard for the format of .dbf files).

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