On Nov 9, 2006, at 7:10 PM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
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/
That's a good start.
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.
Well, it so happens that there are already some dbfawk files for the
TIGER shapefiles written and in place in the standard xastir
distribution, so you don't really have to start from scratch the way
Tom's tutorials walk you through. You can find them in /usr/local/
share/xastir/config/tgr*.dbfawk (assuming you installed in /usr/
local/). Use the info on Tom's web site to figure out how to tweak
the dbfawk files to behave more like you want.
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?
Begin by asking _why_ you want it to look like the original TIGER
data. (: By "original TIGER data" I assume you mean the TIGER data
as rendered by the TIGER server. The short answer is that it'd be
tough. A longer and more useful answer is to look in the dbfawks
mentioned earlier and start modifying. You can probably eventually
get there.
You can also affect how your maps look by changing the background
color and the map labels fonts (map -> configure).
What are all those different files for and how can I start editing
this to my liking?
The files you mention are the actual data. You generally want to
change how that data is rendered (via dbfawks, map properties, and
tactics) and not actually change the data.
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?
Talk to the vendors about that. Mapping programs are generally
somewhere between extremely unhelpful and hostile about use of their
data by some other software.
There is an APRS application called APRS+SA that's some sort of
plugin type app for a very old version of SA (v9, IIRC).
Unfortunately it was recommended to our balloonsat project and I have
found it to be so frustrating and complex that it is useless. I have
been actively campaigning to replace it with xastir (or anything
else!) since the first time I used it. APRS+SA convinced me to use a
dedicated app like xastir.
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.
hear, hear!
-Jason
kg4wsv
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