[Xastir] WX Counties

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Note, also, that NWS is getting away from COUNTY warnings and going to 
polygons.

Curt, I can make available the CONUS warnings shapefiles.  They're 
updated every 5 minutes.  I snag them, currently, from NOAA PRH for 
Mesonet.  They're a LOT smaller than USrad.

gerry

Curt Mills wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Bennett, Joe wrote:
> 
> 
>>At one time I had WX counties working just fine, and now it has seemed to
>>stop. I see the alerts under View-> Weather Alerts but no counties are shaded
>>in... I have Enable Weather Alert Counties enabled, but no dice.... Any
>>ideas???
>>
>>Help about says the following libraries are used: ShapeLib ImageMagick PCRE
>>Dbfawk
>>
>>All running on 1.4.0 on Suse 9.0
> 
> 
> If you upgraded from a very old Xastir, it's possible that your
> config files are pointing at the wrong directory structure.
> 
> You also must not have "Disable All Maps" clicked.  That turns off
> weather alert maps as well.
> 
> If you have rather old NOAA Shapefiles, you might need to update
> them.
> 
> Are you seeing info in the View->Weather Alerts dialog that is not
> being displayed?  It's possible if you know there are weather alerts
> and they are not appearing in that box, or they are appearing there
> but don't have zone numbers in them (county names instead), that
> they were sent by something other than the weather server (WXSVR)
> software, and therefore aren't parsable in Xastir.
> 
> Make sure you have all of the files you need downloaded from NOAA.
> There are several files if you want to see all the possible alerts.
> 

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