[Xastir] Weather Alerts

Curt Mills archer at eskimo.com
Sat Feb 5 00:15:19 EST 2005


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Clay Jackson wrote:

> I just copied the shapefiles for counties, turned on Display Weather
> Alerts, and although xastir says we have two advisorys (snow in the
> mountains, finally); I'm not seeing anything on the map.
> 
> Does the display only trip when the alert first arrives, or am I doing
> something stupid?

Need Shapelib support compiled in.  Also need to put those things
into your Counties directory.  Can't remember whether you need to
index maps, but I don't think so.

If you zoom or pan and alerts are visible, it should display them.

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