I decided to learn dbfawk using the trial by fire method. I spent today working on a dbfawk file for these new Tiger Shapefiles. I started with tgr2shp.dbfawk, but had to modify almost everything. Here's what I came up with: http://tomh.us/tgrshplines.dbfawk
Here's a screen shot of it in use: http://tomh.us/snapshot.png I only worked on the All Lines (by county) package, and didn't mess with labels and polygons, but it displays roads and water decently. This documentation was very useful: Tiger Shapefile documentation: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshprl.pdf CFCC => MTFCC conversion: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/luca2010/luca_luca_br.txt And of course: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK I hope this is beneficial to the group. I'm still learning dbfawk, so let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement. Tom KD7LXL On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Tom Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:03:16AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > > Download link: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/national-files > > > > Now how do I make water lines a different color from road lines? Is > > that what dbfawk does? Can a generic configuration file be distributed > > for this (and how would I go about doing this)? > > A new set of dbfawk files specific for these shapefiles will have to be > written. As the shapefiles are only a day old, nobody's gotten around to > doing that yet. > > You could start from the file "tgr2shp.dbfawk" and "tgr2shppoly.dbfawk" and > adapt them to the new shapefiles if you care to try it out. I was planning > to > do just that eventually, but am too busy to do it any time this week. > > -- > 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
