[Xastir] Offline Maps update?

[Kevin Ratcliff]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Interesting Kevin but I'm not in the clear about the nuts and bolts.Would I or anyone have to unpack the .osm.pbf or osm.bz2 files toget at the appropriate shapefiles?

Download the .shp.zip file(s) for your state(s) here:
http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html. The .osm.pbf and
osm.bz2 files will not work, but the shapefiles contain much of the
same data just in a different format that will work in xastir.

Then extract the zip file using the GUI or command line. There should
now be a bunch of roads.* files as well as many others. Copy all of
the "roads.*" files into your Xastir maps directory.

> Once that's done a modification needs to be made to the originalOSM_Cloudmade_Highway.dbfawk that you renamed to roads.dbfawkbased upon what is in the Geofabrik roads.dbf file?

Correct.

> My question is Cloudmade is gone now so how does one get  OSM_Cloudmade_highway.dbfawk filesif they do not already have them on their machine?

The OSM_Cloudmade_highway.dbfawk file is included when you install
xastir! It didn't come from Cloudmade, as it's just a small plain text
file with a funny file extension. The xastir developers created it.
Look in /usr/share/xastir/config/ or /usr/local/share/xastir/config/
for it. It's likely in one of those two spots depending on your
system.

Oh, the above will only get you roads. You will not get water, points
of interest, etc until someone looks into the structure of the other
shapefiles and determines what, if anything, needs to be done to the
other dbfawk files. I've not tried them, and I do not have the time to
do this for a while, and probably not the expertise to fix any major
issues either!

Hopefully that gets you headed in the right direction. I'm out of time
for today.

Kevin
KB9MQU