[Xastir-dev] Observations

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:29:56AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
> >
> > > > > Weather objects are back to being a cause for a pause after maps
> > > > > are loaded nad before htey are displayed.
> > > >
> > > > Do you mean the lit-up counties?  There are more of them on the map
> > > > right now.
> > > Weather Alerts, I meant..........
> > > DUH! was still thinking object from above.
> >
> > Some other things could affect this, like rtree and dbfawk perhaps.
> > Have you changed anything with respect to those two options lately?
>
> Enabling rtree should be no different from disabling it where weather
> alerts are concerned.  When draw_shapefile_map is called to display an alert
> county, all rtree indexing is skipped --- we already know which shape to
> display, so there's no point looking it up in the spatial index.
>
> If there's a noticable difference in this behavior with and without
> rtree, then there's a mistake in how that skipping is done.  Please let me
> know if that's the case.

Thanks.  I didn't mean to spread disinformation...  Just uninformed
on these particular issues!

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