[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Skyler F]

Can someone just send me or send a link to a map shape file that works
great so I can just see what you guys do? Is it as simple as adding all of
the stuff to new columbs in my spreadsheet program?

Thanks
Skyler


On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> VK2XSE
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