[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Skyler F]

Thanks for that info. What text editor do you use to open your dbf files? I
am finding that I can only open it with a spreadsheet program without the
files freezing on me. The spreadsheet program though does not have a place
for dbfinfo.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Kevin Ratcliff <kevin at kevinratcliff.com>
wrote:

> 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 Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would like to show some names on my shape files and I remember hearing
> > that I needed to create a DBFAWK file.
> >
> > Can anybody help on creating a DBFAWK file so I can see labels? I am not
> > seeing anything right now with the shape files I downloaded from Open
> > Street Maps
> >
> > Skyler KD0WHB
> >
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