[Xastir] radar maps

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Fri May 9 10:35:06 EDT 2003


using multiple radar sites around Texas is pretty ugly but working with 
last nite's cvs on Linux.  Can't talk 'bout Solaris...

Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:
> 
> All this talk about using GEO files to access radar maps has caused me 
> to download the appropriate .geo files.  But they aren't working, and it 
> appears that at least for me online tigermaps are broken, too.
> 
> Just to refresh everybody, I'm running Xastir under Solaris 8 on Sparc 
> hardware.  CVS build 4-29-03
> One additional complication, I also run it under VNC.  The desktop 
> colors do look different under VNC than when I'm on the regular monitor, 
> probably there is a color depth difference.
> 
> Xastir loads the .geo file and puts it in the map chooser.  I can select 
> the .geo file, it downloads the file and displays a black box where the 
> radar image should be.  So I did some checking, and I remember using 
> online tigermaps a long time ago, maybe months, but havn't checked them 
> scince then.  They don't work now either.
> 
> Imagemagick is apparently installed correctly. I'm running a CVS version 
> of ImageMagick dated 10-1-02 (5.5.1) In /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif 
> is the file.  I can type display and that file and the map appear 
> correct.  If I have the .geo selected, then the radar map appears when I 
> type display, and when I have tigermaps selected, the downloaded 
> tigermap looks ok when I type display.  Neither works inside Xastir.
> 
> Man things do get complicated around here, don't they?
> 
> Thanks for all your time.
> Dick R. - KC8OBZ
> 
> This section is debug 512 output from the .geo file.
> 
> X tiepoint width: 1358363
> Y tiepoint width: 1052749
> 
> Image: /usr/local/xastir/maps/100_radar/stp_iln.geo
> Image size 620 620
> XX: -820051 YY:-241916 Sx 3321.180929 158 Sy 2573.958435 160
> Translated tiepoint_0 x: 0    33547396
> Translated tiepoint_0 y: 0    17411208
> Translated tiepoint_1 x: 619    35603206
> Translated tiepoint_1 y: 619    19004488
> 
> This section is debug 512 output from the online Tigermap.
> 
> left side is -83.464711
> right side is -83.398619
> top  is 40.191356
> bottom is 40.161978
> lat center is 40.176667
> long center is -83.431665
> screen width is 1133
> screen height is 661
> map width is 0.066092
> map height is 0.029378
> fileimg is 
> http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&on=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=40.176667&lon=-83.431665&wid=0.066092&ht=0.029378&iwd=1133&iht=661 
> 
> ftp or http file: 
> http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&on=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=40.176667&lon=-83.431665&wid=0.066092&ht=0.029378&iwd=1133&iht=661 
> 
> /usr/local/bin/wget --server-response --timestamping --tries=1 
> --timeout=120 --output-document=/var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif 
> 'http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&on=GRID&on=counties&on=CITIES&on=places&on=majroads&on=railroad&off=states&on=interstate&on=ushwy&on=statehwy&on=water&on=shorelin&on=miscell&lat=40.176667&lon=-83.431665&wid=0.066092&ht=0.029378&iwd=1133&iht=661' 
> 2> /dev/null
> Copied /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif into image info.
> image_info got: /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif
> Entered ImageMagick code.
> Attempting to open: /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif
> Color depth is 8
> level=0, 1, 77100
> Colormap color is 55704  55704  55704
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55704  55704  55704
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 27743  38228  55704
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  27743  55704  38228
> Colormap color is 41723  41723  41723
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  41723  41723  41723
> Colormap color is 27961  27961  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  27961  0  27961
> Colormap color is 33422  33422  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  33422  0  33422
> Colormap color is 55704  53957  34733
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55704  34733  53957
> Colormap color is 45219  45219  45219
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  45219  45219  45219
> Colormap color is 0  34733  55704
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  55704  34733
> Colormap color is 55704  55704  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55704  0  55704
> Colormap color is 55704  39321  37136
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55704  37136  39321
> Colormap color is 38228  46966  27743
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  38228  27743  46966
> Colormap color is 27743  55704  27743
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  27743  27743  55704
> Colormap color is 55704  34733  41723
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55704  41723  34733
> Colormap color is 44563  33422  11140
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  44563  11140  33422
> Colormap color is 22281  22281  22281
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  22281  22281  22281
> Colormap color is 55704  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55704  0  0
> Colormap color is 33422  11140  33422
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  33422  33422  11140
> Colormap color is 55486  55704  55704
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  55486  55704  55704
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> Colormap color is 0  0  0
> Color quantum is [0..65535]
> Color allocated is 0  0  0  0
> X tiepoint width: 23793
> Y tiepoint width: 10576
> Loading imagemap: /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif
> 
> Image: /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif
> Image size 1133 661
> XX: 0 YY:0 Sx 21.018551 1 Sy 16.024242 1
> Image size 1133 661
> Unique colors = 10
> XX: 0 YY:0 Sx 21.018551 1 Sy 16.024242 1
> image matte is 0
> 
> 
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