On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:07:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ray Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We have dbf files with the county files. > > Not dbf, dbfawk. That's an xastir-specific file that goes with a set > of shapefiles to influence how those files are displayed. As best I > can recall, the behavior you describe sounds like how xastir displays > a shapefile with no corresponding dbfawk.
Yes, it is. Not only that, the weather alert stuff is entirely dependent on proper dbfawk files being set up for the associated shapefiles -- the dbfawk files provided with Xastir will only make the NOAA US shapefiles work properly. You'll have to set up a complete new dbfawk for the Australia-specific shapefiles. You can look at the nwsc_ddmmyy.dbfawk file in /usr/local/share/xastir/config for how the US county data is used; odds are good you can copy that one to another name and modify it only slightly to get your shapefiles working. One must set a "key" for each shape that will be used to match that shape against the county in the alert (the alert "title"). For the US, that key is something like NM_C004 for county # 004 in state NM. The nwsc_ddmmyy.dbfawk file combines the "STATE" and "FIPS" fields in the dbf file to construct the key. It will almost certainly be different for the Australia shapefiles. You will also need to be sure to set the dbfinfo and dbffields variables appropriately. The Xastir wiki page http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK is the wikified version of my dbfawk tutorial, but it doesn't go into the weather alert stuff (mainly because that stuff was already set up for US users and few would need to modify it). The essential dbfawk feature that's not described in that document is the "key" field, which is used only for weather alerts. The dbfinfo and dbffields variables are documented there, though. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "I have the power to channel my imagination into ever-soaring levels of suspicion and paranoia." -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
