[Xastir] How to create DBFAWK

[Skyler F]

Thanks! Now everything makes sense, thats why I was having so much issues,
I was trying to edit the .dbf file!

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Jason Godfrey <godfreja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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