[Xastir] Regarding Offline OSM and dbfawk

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:44:48PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
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> > I would love to get topo data in shapefile format...
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> Well, that isn't actually all that hard

Unless, of course, you meant "all the info in USGS topo maps" when you wrote
"topo data."  I meant only the contour lines, which you can get pretty easily.

I generally have found in my area that the more the USGS improves the US Topo
files, the less information I need appears in them anyway --- info like
forest service trails and other wilderness-releated stuff.  So I use them only
as base  layers where I overlay more important data.

If you just meant you want maps as pretty as USGS topos without having to
use rasters, my statement about that not being hard is wrong.  

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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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