Thanks very much Tom. I've been downloading
and converting the west-coast states myself, and
it is a long process. I still don't know if I'm doing it
right. :-) Though your previous directions helped
a lot. I must say that the maps are the hardest part
of Xastir. If there were some way to make that easier
it would go a long way to increasing the usefulness of
xastir. Though I realize that a lot of the "barrier to entry"
is just a learning curve about mapping systems in
general.
Thanks very much for your efforts,
Craig
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Hi all,
I've been beating my head against the wall of the
Tiger 2006 maps that I downloaded from xastir.tamu.edu
(which seems to be down right now). I get several things
that don't work well about those maps. One is a lack of
colors, the other is no fills anywhere. No water fills, no
parks, no built-up city areas, nothing. I've tried every option
I can play with, including messing with the dbfawk files and
I get nothing like the maps I get from the Online/tigermap.geo
server.
If I recall correctly, the person who generated those maps only
generated
the polyline versions, not the polygon versions.
I just checked. Gerry pointed me at aprs.tamu.edu (anonymous FTP
site) and
I see that indeed only the line files for the TIGER 2006 files were
ever
generated.
I am currently in the process of downloading all of the TIGER 2006
Second
Edition data and processing it --- my process will generate both
the line and
polygon data. This process will take several days, as the polygon
generation
is slow and there are many, many files to convert.
Once I finish, I'll get with Gerry and figure out how to upload
them to
aprs.tamu.edu. Watch this space for an announcment when I finish
and the
files are available.
Gerry says that the xastir.tamu.edu machine crashed hard and is not
back yet.
No apparent ETA to its return.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/
~russo/
Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/
brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all
you get is
one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy,
oooh, oooh,
oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick
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