Is there any way to get a file created so it displays the same as the on line tiger maps do within Xastir? That format looks great to me and I would love to duplicate it with local tiger files.
Thank You, Brian N2KGC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Russo Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 1:20 PM To: Robert C. Rogers Cc: xastir@xastir.org Subject: Re: [Xastir] DBFAWK and map symbols 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). -- 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 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir