Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: > Neither ArcGIS nor ArcView stores color information in the shapefiles > directly. > > As has already been pointed out: dbfawk. Ain't maps fun? Shapefiles are a wonderful vector file format, capable of being used by a LOT of the GIS programs and mapping

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Gerry Creager
Neither ArcGIS nor ArcView stores color information in the shapefiles directly. As has already been pointed out: dbfawk. gerry Jim Tolbert wrote: I received the shapefiles ( from ESRI) from the local County Surveyor's office yesterday and Xastir read them right in!! It is beautiful. The ma

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:19:08AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > I received the shapefiles ( from ESRI) from the local County Surveyor's > office yesterday and Xastir read them right in!! It is beautiful. > > The map tech thou

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Does anyone know, can I change colors and symbols and show labels now, You are now ready for the wonderful world of dbfawk writing. Wiki instructions at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK The original instructions I used: h

[Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Jim Tolbert
I received the shapefiles ( from ESRI) from the local County Surveyor's office yesterday and Xastir read them right in!! It is beautiful. The map tech thought that all the colors, symbols, and road names were included in the files. When I loaded them in, the only filled layer was the lakes a