On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote: > 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.
He also has to have "dbfawk" listed in his Help-About dialog. If not, then he probably needs to install the PCRE library and/or Shapelib (but we know he already has Shapelib) in order to enable the dbfawk functionality. > 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. Except that MapInfo is a GIS program, and there is support for some of its file formats in the GDAL/OGR library. If he's talking vector formats, he'll probably be able to use them. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
