On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:20:11AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:38:04AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > It took a while, but I'm now making dbfawk files of my own. > > > > I saw in the file # symbol - 3 char 'TIO': table, ID, overlay > > > > So far I've not found any info on this function... I'm hoping it's a way > > to display Interstate/US Hwy/State Hwy symbols with the numbers as the > > overlay.... Reading the names on the map is a bit tricky when on the road. > > No, it's not. There is currently no way to symbolize roads using standard > highway symbols in xastir. > > If you set "symbol" in a dbfawk rule, it allows a point feature (and only > a point feature) to be symbolized by standard APRS symbols like the ones > you can give to your station or to objects/items. Table, ID and overlay > are the character's you'd transmit in your posit (e.g. "/- " for a house, > or "\#S" for a new n-N paradigm digipeater). > > That field is typically used when you generate hand-rolled point shapefiles > and want to symbolize them somehow (see README.MAPS for an example of how > to do it).
For more information about dbfawk, consult http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK Unfortunately, it doesn't document "symbol" that much except to mention it's for point data. The "group/symbol/overlay" terminology is meant to reflect that it's the same as APRS station and object symbols, but that could be made more clear. -- 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 "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir