On 9/21/07, Joe Veldhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also took the one that James posted for the Geobase.ca road maps and > hacked at it a bit. My goal was to make them look the same as the Tiger road > maps, and that's pretty much what it does, although it doesn't correctly set > the > street labels yet. It might only work with the ON map, as that's the one I'm > working with (going by James' call, his was probably based on the headers for > the AB map).
I would like to get the output looking like the Tiger Maps as well, but have found that a little difficult, as you need more information than just road data. A hydrology layer would be second on my list, followed by land use such as parks and other polygons. The dbfawk that I sent you just barely started to make the roads show up with slightly different attributes. I found it difficult to tailor the output nicely as the road classifications can make it difficult. A ramp can be a turn lane separated from the main traffic lanes on a residential street by an island right up to mile long stretches of primary highway on/off ramps. Trying to find a happy medium where you aren't driving in a field at 110 km/hr, but still don't have inner city turn lanes showing up at wide zoom levels is difficult. I never even took a stab at trying to parse out road names. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir