Re: [Xastir] slimming down dbf files

2006-10-06 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
It's always hard to get enough information across that I make sense, but not so much that I spend a long time writing a large encyclopedic article. Heres the dbfawk that I used. dbfinfo="NATRDCLASS:RTNUMBER1:RTNUMBER2:RTNUMBER3:RTNUMBER4:RTENAME1EN:RTENAME2E N:EXITNBR:NBRLANES:PAVSTATUS:STRUCTID:

Re: [Xastir] slimming down dbf files

2006-10-06 Thread Tom Russo
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:30:38PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I checked and the Geobase.ca NRN uses the ROADSEGID to associate which > shape with what dbf entry. This doesn't quite make sense. Per the shapefile spec there is *

Re: [Xastir] slimming down dbf files

2006-10-06 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
I checked and the Geobase.ca NRN uses the ROADSEGID to associate which shape with what dbf entry. If theres no connection, xastir colors the roads seemingly randomly (due to misassociation of the dbf entries). So I'm down to 46.7mb for BC, but this is even before a dbfawk file is created, so depen

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Chip G. wrote: > Not so much a problem as a curiosity. I might argue that the ability > to turn it off would be worthwhile. While generally it is good to > know whether a station is exactly where it appears, the extra drawing > might cause confusion under some circumstances. On

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread Chip G.
On Oct 6, 2006, at 08:59, Curt, WE7U wrote: There's no way to turn it off. Most people don't zoom in that far anyway. Correct. I rarely zoom closer than 256, just right to view my entire county plus a little. Is it causing any problems? Not so much a problem as a curiosity. I might ar

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread John Ronan
Nope. Excellent guess though, and kind of a similar type of thing. Position ambiguity is now a box with lines diagonal from corner to corner, with the symbol placed in the center. I see VA7ALB-9, AC9H-12, and DL1HSI on my map with position ambiguity rectangles. Ah.. yes.. very different.. coo

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Lance Cotton wrote: > Contrast with Position Ambiguity where the sending station intentionally > replaces significant digits with spaces. This is drawn with a > stipple-filled box in Xastir. Not anymore. It's an empty box with a diagonal line from corner to corner and going t

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread Lance Cotton
John Ronan wrote: I could be wrong, but isn't that the box to indicate Position Ambiguity? Though I don't seem to be able to switch it off. Not Position Ambiguity, but position precision, or lack thereof. Depending on how many significant digits of the lat/lon are sent, a correct sized box ap

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, John Ronan wrote: > I could be wrong, but isn't that the box to indicate Position > Ambiguity? Though I don't seem to be able to switch it off. Nope. Excellent guess though, and kind of a similar type of thing. Position ambiguity is now a box with lines diagonal from corner t

Re: [Xastir] Another Xastir Oddities

2006-10-06 Thread John Ronan
I could be wrong, but isn't that the box to indicate Position Ambiguity? Though I don't seem to be able to switch it off. On 6 Oct 2006, at 07:51, Chip G. wrote: Some images on the website below to illustrate my latest inquiry. I recently noticed this with v1.8.3 (latest CVS updated as of e