[Xastir] Tiger maps?

[Michael Lewis]

  I stand corrected I got them from the tiger website.

On 9/4/2010 10:50 AM, Michael Lewis wrote:
> 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
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