[Xastir] NWS warning overlays still used?

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:

> Are the old mapfiles that would color a whole county with transparent
> legens like STORM WARNING or the like still used, or is the new colored
> outline the replacement?

Are you talking about the alternating yellow/black or sometimes
red/black or other colors, that outline a polygon?  Those are server
weather polygons.  A different thing than the NOAA alert areas.

We still have the tinted weather alerts.  Those are determined via
NOAA maps in the /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties directory, and
having Shapelib installed.  Also, whether you configure using
--with-dbfawk may affect whether they are displayed (or how they are
displayed).  I haven't played with dbfawk enough yet to figure out
whether everything is good there.  If you skip the dbfawk stuff the
weather alerts should definitely work.

Another related issue is that I'm starting to work on fire weather
alerts, which will require yet another file in the Counties
directory, plus we might have weather alert regions and alert areas
for Canada very soon as well, requiring two more files.  It'll be
nice having Canadian weather alerts and US weather alerts both
working.

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