[Xastir] WX stations

[Chris Hare]

GReat - thanks Curt - this is cool.

Now, I can't find the naming convention for the files.  For exampl,e the
file I got are

*ccdcu.shp
*ctycu.shp
*lk*.shp - which I assume are lakes
*wat.shp which I assume is water

how do I 

1.  tell if it is a raster?

2.  decipher these names?

3.  configure tigermaps for a layer?

Thanks!


On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:22, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On 27 May 2003, Chris Hare wrote:
> 
> > okay - I disabled the raster maps and now the radar images so up, but
> > 1.  they have the text "Radar image from ....." and the DBZ scale on
> > them.  they also overlap badly, so it is hard to read them.  how do I
> > fix this?
> >
> > 2. what maps do i lose access to by doing this?
> >
> > 3.  are the weather alerts county maps still loaded?
> >
> > 4.  how do i get the city detail loaded as well? (or can I?)
> 
> You're learning fast!  Fun, isn't it?
> 
> 1)  You can't fix that.  Yet.  Chris Bell, one of our developers,
> has a change in the works to do some really neato-cool things with
> these images, that I'd rather not mention yet (don't want to steal
> his thunder, as they're _his_ way cool changes, not mine).  We can't
> put his changes in until after the stable release, but I've seen
> them, and I _want_ them!
> 
> 2) None.  What you need to do is pick some map layers for your
> different types of maps.  If you assign the radar maps a high layer,
> they'll get drawn on top of other maps.
> 
> Perhaps you can do something like this:
> 
> -10,000: Raster base maps
> - 9,000: Raster overlay maps
> - 5,000: Weather radar
>   1,000: World vector polygons (choose filled?)
>   2,000: State vector polygons (choose filled?)
>   3,000: County vector polygons (choose filled?)
>   5,000: Water vector polygons
>   5,000: River/stream vector polylines
>  10,000: Vector roads
> 
> You get the picture.
> 
> I haven't personally used negative numbers, but according to the
> docs, they work.
> 
> If you want roads over the weather radar, you can do it as above.
> If you want the weather radar on top, change the map layering.
> Layering, filled/unfilled, and automaps on/off for each map are
> accessed from the Properties tab on the Map Chooser.