[Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

[Gerry Creager]

Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
> On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> 
>> Actually, I do have two copies of the county files for
>> the same reason you do, one to show weather alerts and
>> one to show counties.
> 
> This is a roundabout way of getting there (I got there by accident), but 
> the National Atlas has a counties shapefile that's different from the 
> NOAA counties shapefile.  I use Nat'l Atlas for drawing maps and the 
> NOAA version for alerts.
> 
> Shapefiles are at nationalatlas.gov, and a dbfawk to start tinkering 
> with can be found at
> 
> http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw/xastir/

Just a reminder that SVR, TOR and FF watches are now county-based rather 
than parallelogram-based, and as of 1 OCT SVR, TOR, FFW and SMW warnings 
will be polygon (storm-) based rather than lighting up a whole county.

gerry
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