[Xastir] Tiger maps?

[Michael Lewis]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, Michael Lewis wrote:
>
>> So do you know how to get names for the state and county? I have the 
>> shapefiles so I see state boarders and towns but it's all not labeled 
>> at all. Will the tiger shapefiles work? I might be taking the labtop 
>> mobile with me today which will be the first time doing so.
>
> It's not clear to me _which_ shapefiles you have loaded.  OSM?
> Tiger?  NOAA?  There are many sources for these.
>
> The display of Shapefiles depends on some of the settings on the Map
> menu (Map Levels, Map Labels) and on your dbfawk files.  If you have
> dbfawk files that match your Shapefiles, they control at which zoom
> levels various items appear, and which items appear.
>
> Tell us more and we might be able to help more.  Which Shapefile
> maps are you running (if Tiger, which version of Tiger), and which
> version of Xastir?
>
> CVS Xastir has dbfawk files for Cloudmade OSM Shapefile extracts in
> it.
>
> The image you pointed us to shows a Shapefile map with no features,
> which could be 'cuz labels are turned off, 'cuz a dbfawk file said
> not to display them at that zoom level, or 'cuz you have a Shapefile
> for which there's no matching dbfawk rules.
>
It's been so long I really can't remember.. I can tell you the name of 
it is tl_2009_us_county.shp I think I got it from the NOAA website. the 
version of Xastir as I said before is version 1.9.4