[Xastir] dbfawk complaints after installing Tiger2008 maps

[David Aitcheson]

Bill,

You get the US maps working and I'll get the Canadian maps working.  No way
can I do both at the same time.  Then all we need to do is string the
scripts together in a wrapper and let the machines work.

I am also running Ubuntu 9.10

73
Dave
KB3EFS


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill Hammond <ka1ssr at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm a relative noob to xastir and I'm having trouble with the Tiger 2008
> maps that I downloaded and installed according to the instructions in
> the wiki.
>
> I downloaded the files for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (the whole
> Hillsborough directory) and installed them in the proper directories per
> the wiki.  Whenever I access them, dbfawk complains that it cannot find
> the signature files.  Here is the output I get from xterm...
>
> Built-in map types:
>      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>       pop   USGS GNIS Datapoints w/population
>       map   APRSdos Maps
>       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
>
> Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats
> allowed)
>       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
>       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
>       xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
> festival_client: connect to server failed
> SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival
> Indexing maps...
> Finished indexing maps
> *** Reading WX Alert log files
> *** Done with WX Alert log files
> No DBFAWK signature for
> TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_tabblock00.shp!
>  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for
> TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_bg00.shp!
>  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for
> TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_taz00.shp!
>  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for
> TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_tract00.shp!
>  Using default.
> No DBFAWK signature for
> TIGER2008/33_NEW_HAMPSHIRE/33011_Hillsborough_County/tl_2008_33011_vtd00.shp!
>  Using default.
>
> I have read about .dbfawk files in the MAPS.README file.  I did a little
> searching after that and found that there are no matching .dbfawk files
> for the .dbf files for the maps that I downloaded.
>
> I discovered the Tiger 2009 maps on the same server, so I installed them
> as well using the same procedure, only this time going to the 2009
> directory.  No luck; the maps seem to load although with a grey
> background.
>
> I guess my question is two-fold: 1) Is there a way to generate a .dbfawk
> file from a .dbf file and b) should I even be worrying about these
> errors in the first place?
>
> I'm running version 1.9.7 sucked from the cvs under Ubuntu 9.10.  I've
> recently rediscovered xastir after reading about it in the Linux
> Journal.  If this program were a woman, I'd marry it! ^_^
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> 73,
>
> Bill Hammond KA1SSR
>
>
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