[Xastir] dbfawk and tiled shape files

[Gerry Creager]

I'll have to look at the formal Watch By County messages and see what 
Dale's sending, maybe today.  Options would be to take the parallelogram 
(which I don't think SPC's issuing anymore) and seeing which counties 
are included.  Warnings by polygon will mention affected counties but 
the vertices of the polygon are already published at the bottom of the 
statement.

gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> How does that affect us?
> 
> Are there any changes that need to take place in our code?  Perhaps
> the way we decode NWS alert packets or how we bring up alerts from
> the Shapefiles?  New Shapefiles to download when the switchover
> takes place?
> 
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