[Xastir] Maps?

[Curt Mills]

I should have specified that this is only for the Git version of Xastir
(development version). If you're running that version already do a "git
pull" to get the latest, then configure/build/install Xastir again to get
the latest files installed.

For those not running the latest, you can snag the dbfawk files directly
from GitHub and put them in place yourself. It's just a bit more work.

If you don't care about offline mapping, then skip this QSO entirely and
keep mapping on.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK
>>
>> I looked at the geofabrik.de files a bit for WA. There don't appear to
>> be land-mass layer or lake layers, but otherwise they look good. I have
>> roads and water layers displaying already but the dbfawk's could use more
>> work. Will see if I can get the initial very-rough dbfawk's checked in so
>> others can play with them.
>>
>
> These seem to be fairly complete and are updated often. Gives you another
> offline map option for OSM maps.
>
> The initial support for geofabrik.de maps in Xastir's dbfawk files is for
> "roads" and "waterways".
>
> Xastir displays "buildings", "landuse", "natural", and "railways" as well,
> but there aren't any dbfawk files for them yet so no labels, changes on
> zoom level, colors etc for those. As far as "places" and "points": Without
> labels they are useless.
>
> What the maps are missing: Lakes and land masses. Here's what I did to
> make a nice map stackup with offline maps:
>
> *) Use the county Shapefile set from the weather alerts as the land mass.
> In my case "c_05ap16". I just made a link from my map directory back to the
> "/usr/local/share/xastir/Counties" directory where the weather alert maps
> reside, then reindexed maps and those files show up in the Map Chooser.
>
> *) Use "lk17de98" for the lakes. Don't remember where I got it but I have
> it in maps/World/USA/ directory along with a bunch of USA-wide maps.
>
> *) Enable "buildings", "landuse", "roadways", "roads", and "waterways"
> from the geofabrik.de maps
>
> *) Click on Map Chooser->Properties. Set layer for "lk17de98.shp" to 999
> and for "c_05ap16" to 998. This makes the land get drawn first, then the
> lakes, then the geofabrik.de maps.
>
> *) Map -> Configure -> Background Color -> Navy Blue
>
> Now you'll see ocean with land masses drawn on top, lakes on top of that,
> then the other features drawn on top of that. Looks good and pans/zooms
> fast 'cuz they're all vector maps.
>
> There's a lot that can be (and should be) done yet with the dbfawk files
> for geofabrik.de maps. I did the minimum tweaks to make them start
> working in Xastir. Most of the lines in there are original lines from the
> files I copied to make them, so those lines don't apply to the
> geofabrik.de maps.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U
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>



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