Well I managed to download the shapefiles for my county based off of the Tiger map data from ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/Xastir/Maps/TIGER/xastir.tamu.edu/2004/counties/TN/
Inside the zip file I see this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2516491 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.dbf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1368321 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County_Poly.dbf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1746272 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County_Poly.shp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25444 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County_Poly.shx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.prj -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1700828 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103820 2005-02-27 07:38 TN_Carter_County.shx I unzipped these all to /usr/local/share/xastir/maps and started up xastir, and found the corresponding shapefile in the maps chooser menu and was able to get the map to show up in xastir. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but at least it's working. Reading over this page http://www.swcp.com/~russo/shape_web/tutorial.htmland it appears that there are a lot of options you can configure, but a little of this was over my head at this point. So now that I have some data, I would like to make it look like the original tiger data and dont really know where to begin? What are all those different files for and how can I start editing this to my liking? I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow use that data as well if xastir supports it? I have to say this is the most I have ever used xastir and it is the most advanced APRS program I have ever used. Good job devs. I got Festival working and that is just utterly amazing, it was so cool to hear my messages read off to me! 73's Stephen N1VLV On 11/9/06, Darryl Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > > What would be the best option based on what I want? Also, is there a good > tutorial or reference that explains all these different types of maps > available? I'm in the same position as you are, so I'll be following this thread closely. Curious, I have a copy of Street Atlas, can I extract map files from that? -- Darryl Gibson N2DIY RLU X 182668/379552 "Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave." -- Andrew Fletcher, A Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698) _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
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