Thanks! Two more quick questions....

[David L. Kriske]

Thanks for the responses.... I was afraid that was my only option.  I think 
I'll put off the pretty highway shields for now, at least until I finish 
extracting the 25 gigs or so of shapefile from the Streetmap 2000 disk.

BTW, does anyone familiar with ArcIMS know if this product can serve the 
proprietary Streetmap 2000 data natively without extracting all the 
shapefiles.  We may or may not be going with that product depending upon 
what we ultimately want to serve geographically over the web -- quite 
honestly Mapserver is a pretty cool application that may do what we want, 
but exploding these shapefiles is a real drag!

Finally, I have one more question for you folks concerning using a truetype 
font as a marker symbol.  I'm not sure of the syntax in the symbol 
file.  So far I have:

* * * * *

FONTSET <path/fontfile.txt>

SYMBOL
   TYPE TRUETYPE
   CHARACTER <integer representing the character desired>
END

* * * * *

Where do you specify which font you would like to use in the fontset 
file?  Do you use a FONT keyword in the SYMBOL definition.  The docs did 
not specify.....

Thanks again and Happy Thanksgiving to all!


At 10:05 PM 11/21/2000 -0600, Stephen Lime wrote:
>You can't use a portion of a field so you're only option is to create a 
>road "number" field. You could batch process this easily outside of 
>ArcView using perl, a regex and the XBase module. It'll take a bit of
>time to run given the dataset but it's certainly doable. Editing .dbf 
>files outside of ArcView is perfectly acceptable as long as you don't add 
>records or change the order.
>
>Steve
>
> >>> "David L. Kriske" <david at kriske.com> 11/21/00 20:01 PM >>>
>I am trying to label Tiger-derived street data (ESRI Streetmap 2000) and
>include highway shields for Interstates and other major highways using
>symbols and annotation layers.  My problem is that the name
>field in the Tiger database for interstates is characterized as "I-5" or
>"Hwy 101" when the label on the map I would like to include is only "5" or
>"101".  Has anyone ever tried to add hwy shields to Tiger data using this
>field and if so is there a good way to do this other than manually adding
>a new attribute containing only the numbered portion of the name?  I am
>using the ENTIRE US as my domain so editing these large shapefiles (one
>for each state!) is very time consuming, especially since shapefiles
>don't take kindly to editing their associated dbf file outside ARCVIEW.
>
>David