Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-27 Thread Gerry Creager
I'll have to look at the formal Watch By County messages and see what Dale's sending, maybe today. Options would be to take the parallelogram (which I don't think SPC's issuing anymore) and seeing which counties are included. Warnings by polygon will mention affected counties but the vertices

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: > Just a reminder that SVR, TOR and FF watches are now county-based rather > than parallelogram-based, and as of 1 OCT SVR, TOR, FFW and SMW warnings > will be polygon (storm-) based rather than lighting up a whole county. How does that affect us? Are th

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Gerry Creager
Jason Winningham wrote: On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Alex Carver wrote: Actually, I do have two copies of the county files for the same reason you do, one to show weather alerts and one to show counties. This is a roundabout way of getting there (I got there by accident), but the National A

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
--- Jason Winningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a roundabout way of getting there (I got > there by accident), > but the National Atlas has a counties shapefile > that's different from > the NOAA counties shapefile. I use Nat'l Atlas for > drawing maps and > the NOAA version for al

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Winningham
On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Alex Carver wrote: Actually, I do have two copies of the county files for the same reason you do, one to show weather alerts and one to show counties. This is a roundabout way of getting there (I got there by accident), but the National Atlas has a counties shap

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
--- Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:39:34PM -0700, we > recorded a bogon-computron collision of the > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Mike Fenske wrote: > > > > > You can get by with one dbfawk file if the dbf > fields are the >

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:39:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Mike Fenske wrote: > > > You can get by with one dbfawk file if the dbf fields are the > > same for each shapefile and you want each shapefile

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Mike Fenske wrote: > You can get by with one dbfawk file if the dbf fields are the > same for each shapefile and you want each shapefile displayed the > same. Sounds like this is what you want. I have done just that > here with a large shapefile I split up. Put the dbfawk

Re: [Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Mike Fenske
Alex Carver wrote: I was trying to customize some of the dbfawk files the other day and was having difficulty figuring out why it didn't work. On my setup, to speed up loading, I've broken up a lot of the shape files into tiled sections (I forgot the tool used but it was on the web page somewher

[Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Carver
I was trying to customize some of the dbfawk files the other day and was having difficulty figuring out why it didn't work. On my setup, to speed up loading, I've broken up a lot of the shape files into tiled sections (I forgot the tool used but it was on the web page somewhere at one point). Any