Questions about counties (was Re: [Xastir] wx boxes and warnings)

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "Curt" == Curt Mills <Curt> writes:

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Curt> Yea.  If you have populated the /usr/local/Xastir/Counties
Curt> directory with the Shapefiles from NOAA, and you have Shapelib
Curt> compiled in, you'll see counties and zones lit up as the alerts
Curt> come and go.

These files are in a special place because they're used for special
reasons, right?  Is there any chance that someone who knows precisely
what files to get and precisely where they are could write a script
like fcc-get to pull them down, process them, and stick them in the
right places?  It will be slightly more difficult as the filenames
appear to change, but it would still be keen to tell new users "run
nwsshp-get to update your NWS shapefiles", especially if the Counties
directory moves under maps someday in a fit of rationality.

Curt> Without all of that, you should still see the boundary boxes and
Curt> tornado objects on your screeen as they're posted to the APRS-IS
Curt> by the weather server.

I suspect this was probably covered, but I thought I'd ask here:

All these weather alerts are *not* being passed over the air by
default, but are being passed over the Internet?  I grew up in New
England and the phone would inevitably go out just as I'd want to know
more about incoming storms -- why aren't these propagated over RF?

Jack.
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