[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Jason Godfrey]

Yes. The .dbf comes with a shapefile and contains information about
features in the shapefile. The .dbfawk file is xastir filetype and contains
rules on how to display a feature in a shapefile based on what is in the
.dbf file.

- Jason

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:05 AM Skyler Fennell <electricity440 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> Skyler Fennell
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> >> KDØWHB
> >> electricity440 at gmail.com
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