[Xastir] Weather Alert Counties and DBFAWK?

[Alan Crosswell]

Take a look at the code, I think the debug level you want to set is 16.  Do this 
and you'll see what dbfawk is or is not doing with alerts.
/a

Tom Russo wrote:
> Is there anyone out there who is using both DBFAWK and weather alert counties?
> Do the weather alerts actually highlight counties the same way that the
> non-dbfawk code does?
> 
> I have noticed that ever since I enabled DBFAWK (months ago), none of the 
> weather alerts show up.  I've got a c_, z_, and w_ file in my 
> /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties directory and have "Enable Weather Alert 
> Counties" checked in the maps menu.  There are a lot of weather alerts in my
> area this week (record precipitation), but no sign that xastir can find the
> right shape to highlight.  All of these alerts have alert counties like 
> "NM_Z003" and such.  Using testawk I can see that z_ddmmyy does have a
> record whose key is NM_Z003, but for whatever reason xastir doesn't highlight
> it.
> 
> I have also noticed (just yesterday), that the zone shape file (z_DDmmmYY)
> I downloaded frim www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/ yesterday has an extra attribute 
> in the dbf file (SHORTNAME) that the older version I'd downloaded months
> ago doesn't, so the nwsz_ddmmyy.dbfawk file no longer has the right DBFINFO 
> field.  Even fixing the dbfawk file so the "cannot find signature" error goes 
> away doesn't help.  
>