[Xastir] Did the NWS pull a fast one - Shapefile data

[Curt Mills]

Working on it. I have the 'z' files working now, but the "fz" files
have the same problem. I don't see any dbfawk files for the "fz" files
at all.

I'll check in the first fix shortly.

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 4:10 PM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 03:45:04PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <davidf4 at mindspring.com> flavor, containing:
> > I think that despite the filename being the same, the NWS pulled a fast one
> > and silently updated the z_10oc19.dbf file.
>
> They have done that time and again, which is why there is a proliferation
> of dbfawks in the config directory (so that people who don't want to update
> their NWS files constantly don't have their old files made useless when
> we change the dbfawk to make them work with the new files --- so instead,
> each time there's a change we just create a new dbfawk and leave the old in
> place).
>
> > I did a git pull today and it pulled in a new get-NWSDATA script so I went
> > ahead and ran it after a full compile.  It's reporting that there isn't a
> > dbfawk signature match for that NWS file.
> >
> > I took a look at the Wiki but I can't tell which file(s) in the dbfwak
> > database are used for the z_ files so I'm having trouble rolling my own.
>
> The dbfawks associated with the NWS zone shapefiles are "nwsz_*.dbfawk)
> in the config directory.
>
> Copy the latest one, which would be nwsz_ddmmyy13.dbfawk (appears
> that the zone signature hasn't changed in 6 years --- it used to change
> more often).  Call it "nwsz_ddmmyy19.dbfawk" and change the "dbfinfo" line
> to match the signature in the new files (which you can get by using the "testdbfawk" program:
> testdbfawk -D /usr/local/share/xastir/config -d [your new shapefile name]
> whose second line of output is the signature, which could be cut and pasted
> into the "dbfinfo" value.
>
> If they haven't changed the actual names of columns, just the ordering, you
> should be good to go.  If they changed the names, you'll have to change the
> "dbffields" variable, too, to pick out the two important columns, the zone
> number and the  name.
>
> If that fixes things, then let us know and we can add the new dbfawk to the
> repo.  Curt just updated get-NWS a couple of weeks ago, and perhaps overlooked
> this step (since it's been a few years since dbfawks needed updating).
>
> --
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
> Tijeras, NM
>
>  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]
>
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