[Xastir] More Tiger maps questions

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Dale Seaburg <kg5lt at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Making progress on customizing the Tiger/Line maps with the dbfawk files.  I
> managed to color the "secondary" roads with the RED color.  These are non
> county, city street and freeway roads.  I also was wrong when I said I
> needed county borders.  They are there, but I'd like to change them from
> black to grey and thicken the line a bit.  Still looking for that attribute.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1.  Where does one find a list of the color codes for the dbfawk files?

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK

or you could probably browse/grep the source code.

> 3.  Anyone know which shapefile contains the background color (looks like
> light-grey) for the maps?

None of them - it's on the map -> configure -> background color menu.

-Jason
kg4wsv