[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Skyler F]

I am in the DBF file, in my case roads.dbf from OSM but I don't see
anything that tells me stuff like text lables etc, just the specific road
names.

I simply want my xastir to show the road lables etc. I don't care about
changing the name of the roads

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 14:52:25 -0600
> Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Look at http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for that page. I am stuck on building dbfinfo.
> >
> > "it's part of the shapelib "contrib" directory, you need to build it
> > separately from shapelib)"
> >
> > I am in the contrib directory and now want to build dbfinfo. I don't
> > see any .sh files or anything to easily install.
> >
> > How do I build dbfinfo?
>
> I made my dbfawk files by my usual coding method
> which is copy, edit and paste.
>
> So I just took another dbfawk file and started modifying. I haven't
> specifically used dbfinfo but opened the shp file with something like
> qgis.
> If you have a file like c5313_cartographiclines.dbf that goes with
> c5313cartographiclines.shp
> you can open the dbf file in gnumeric and use the column headers.
> Liz
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