[Xastir] New capability: 2008 Tiger Shapefile street maps

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

Me corrected. I thought that QGIS was to be used to perform the stripping.

Richard


Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:07:45PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <r.polivka at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
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>> QGIS is out for this.
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> He asked about *viewing* the data, and QGIS should be able to do that.  One
> could do the ogr2ogr thing, then view the result in QGIS or ArcExplorer, and
> iterate.  Painful, but at least graphical and easier to see the results than
> getting it in Xastir.  You wouldn't use QGIS to do the subsetting, though.
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> I don't think ArcExplorer can do it, either.  ArcGIS could, but who wants to
> spend thousands of bucks for the privilege?
>
> The other option, of course, is GRASS, but that's definitely not for the
> faint of heart.  The learning curve is too steep.  But selecting subsets of
> data would be pretty straightforward with that, and then one would use
> precisely the same OGR syntax to output it (because GRASS uses OGR to write
> vector data).
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