[Xastir] geo files again

[vic]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 06:50 pm, you wrote:

Where in the documentation of xastir does it say that the geo files HAVE to 
look like this??? It says that :

you'll probably want to add an IMAGESIZE line to each one to speed up
      loading when some radars are offscreen: (bash syntax, modify for your
      shell...)

  for a in srb_*; do echo "IMAGESIZE 620 620" >> $a; done  <[What is this}

what is negate 200??

What I have found, is that the image size is REQUIRED to make xastir even read 
in the file to the maps_index.sys file on my system. So I open them, add the 
imagesize and negate, save and restart OR re-index and they show up and are 
usable.
REMOVE the geo files,, and the map_index.sys file and the selected_maps.sys 
remain stuck... as in they will not reindex, the data remains and can only be 
deleted by hand.  Upon which a new proper geo file will show up again on 
re-indexing, but not go away on removal. Its repeatable....
Is that the proper action of xastir or bugs?? (1. not seeing a geo file 
without the display option. 2. not removing a geo file from the index file 
and the map selection list, (when it is removed physically from the hard 
drive), upon re-indexing.)




> #NWS_RADAR_amx MIAMI FL kg5qd 07/04/01
> URL http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/images/DS.p19r0/SI.kamx/latest.gif
> #                       X               Y        Long           Lat
> TIEPOINT       116         108     -82.036736     27.056444
> TIEPOINT        525        517     -78.802689     24.125368
> IMAGESIZE    620     620
> NEGATE 200
>
> I added spaces to make it readable in an e-mail  - use only tabs in a
> real .geo file
>
> 73 de kg5qd Dale