[OZAPRS] Re: New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia

[Andrew Errington]

In XASTIR if you fiddle with the .dbfawk files you can make things appear
in any colour you like.  It's a bit tedious, but quite rewarding.

73,

Andrew
ZL3AME

On Fri, November 21, 2008 16:41, Ray Wells wrote:
> After consultation with readme_maps I've concluded that the shp files
> can belong in /.../maps or any subdirectory of your liking. I've left them
> in /.../maps which is the same location as world.shp that ships with
> xastir. The prj, shx and dbf files are in /.../maps/Counties. I haven't
> broken anything with this course of action.
>
> What I do find encouraging is that on the displayed map (most of
> northern NSW (zoom of 4000) I see the Darling River in light blue. The
> shire boundaries remain black. I've turned auto-fill off so that the shire
> boundaries appear on top of the underlying topo map. I may have to revise
> that thinking.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
>
> Scott Evans wrote:
>
>> Update on Xastir and shape files!
>>
>>
>> Hmm... me thinks I was missing something! what I have running (or now
>> I realise not running!) to have the shape file placed in the
>> /usr/local/share/xastir/maps results in the shape files being loaded
>> but no change in their colour when a warning goes out to air!
>>
>> As Ray explained if you have the shape files in your maps directory
>> you get a pretty grey map with the counties/municipalities outlined in
>> black, this was the comment I meant when I said I had pretty maps! after
>> copying the file into the countries directory then I don't have any
>> pretty colours either... :( So I then decided to install them onto my
>> note book this has Ui-View32 installed and got it all set up nicely! now
>> I see what I should be seeing in Xastir! but sorry to
>> report that they don' t display as they do in Ui-View... still fidlin'
>>
>> I'll report back if I make any further progress...
>>
>>
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