On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:41:55AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Hi Tom, > I hope your processing works better than mine. > All the maps I generated had no fills and no colors. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. :-)
Hard to say what's going on for you. Do you have PCRE installed? If you don't, shapefiles will look terrible. > On May 7, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > > > On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:16:59AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:12:51PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > >> collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > >>> 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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
