[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Skyler Fennell]

So a .dbf and .dbfawk are two separate file types? I think that's where I am confused.



> On Jul 7, 2015, at 3:23 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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