[Xastir] Offline Maps update?
Kevin Ratcliff
kevin at kevinratcliff.com
Mon Aug 24 19:00:41 EDT 2015
I do not have time to do a full reply at the moment, but I have
included below a copy below of a message I sent to the Xastir list
last month. Should get you started with offline OSM maps anyway.
Let me know if you run into problems and I'll reply when I can, or
perhaps someone with more knowledge of this than me will chime in.
Apologies for top posting, but I'm really running late for something!
Kevin
KB9MQU
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From: Kevin Ratcliff <kevin at kevinratcliff.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] How to create DBFAWK
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Skyler,
Are you referring to the OpenStreetMaps shapefile extracts that are
free to download from http://download.geofabrik.de/? If so, you may be
able to take a "shortcut" on your quest to get labels. Let me explain.
A few years ago there were OSM shapefile extracts available at
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/. The xastir developers did a lot of
work creating custom dbfawk files for these shapefiles. The really
nice thing about the dbfawk files for these shapefiles is that they
not only labeled the street names but also color coded them by type
and such. They weren't as pretty looking as the online OSM tiles, but
they worked offline and were extremely fast for panning/zooming. Sadly
the Cloudmade free download service no longer exists.
It appears all is not lost though. The Geofabrik shapefile DBF file
fields aren't that much different from the Cloudmade DBF fields. I
just tried a quick hack on an existing dbfawk file that was designed
for a Cloudmade shapefile and it seemed to work with little
modification using a Geofabrik shapefile.
Here's what I did (I'm sure there are better ways of doing this, but I
dunno what they are):
I located the original file named OSM_Cloudmade_highway.dbfawk (on my
system it was located in /usr/share/xastir/config/) and copied that
file to new file called roads.dbfawk in my xastir maps directory (next
to the other roads.* files that I downloaded from Geofabrik). Then I
looked at the format of the Geofabrik roads.dbf file and based on that
made a couple simple changes to my roads.dbfawk file:
Change the line that reads
dbfinfo="TYPE:NAME:ONEWAY:LANES";
to
dbfinfo="OSM_ID:NAME:REF:TYPE:ONEWAY:BRIDGE:TUNNEL:MAXSPEED";
and change the line that reads
dbffields="TYPE:NAME:ONEWAY:LANES";
to
dbffields="TYPE:NAME:ONEWAY";
With luck, you should now be able to re-index your maps in xastir and
open your roads.shp and see a nicer looking map with streets labeled.
Perhaps if there is enough demand for offline OSM maps in xastir
someone could do a better job of converting the existing Cloudmade
dbfawk files to work with the Geofabrik shapefiles and include the
dbfawk files in the xastir source (sorry, I'm not volunteering).
Kevin
KB9MQU
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Tiger 2006 maps have gone away. I still have a copy of few of them around.
>
> Cloudmade version of the shapefiles not longer can be had.
>
> What's a body to do along with this link on the Wiki? ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2009/
>
> Just unzip all the files helter-skelter and move them into /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/tiger2009?
>
> I've downloaded a couple of states but wonder how to proceed from there. There are a pile of files
> that are listed below the county folders. Are these important? (listing below)
>
> What I'm looking for is a data set that's comparable to the old Cloudmade shapefile maps.
> Is it possible? Yeah, I know one cannot cache and display OSM maps directly in Xastir.
> So be it, but what about some alternative offline strategies?
>
> Oh, I built a new install of Xastir-2.0.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I got support in for everything
> that's displayed at the ./configure summary including map caching. Kurt KC9LDH
>
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> File:tl_2009_17_state.zip 155 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
> File:tl_2009_17_state00.zip 155 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
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> File:tl_2009_17_zcta5.zip 15681 KB 09/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
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