[Xastir] Weather maps are now black

[Gerry Creager]

The real distressing problem here is, we don't change anything and the 
background changes.  We have a cron-job that always runs the same code 
the same way, every 2 minutes.  We flog the ???? out of it and the CPU 
and create several different formats.  The GIF format is the native 
output.

I'll be in Boulder in a month or so, working with the developers and 
getting some additional training.  I'll get with them and see what they 
think.

gerry

Kevin Paetzold wrote:
> "Until Gerry can find the source of the seemingly random changes in 
> background
>  color produced by the weather radar script, the best you can do is to edit
>  the WMSRadar.geo file to change the TRANSPARENT value.  If it's 0x010101
>  then change it to 0x000000 (or vice-versa).  It might fix the map.  You 
> will
>  probably have to change it back a day or two later, though."
> 
> 
> A workaround for these TRANSPARENT value issues that I usewould be to make
> a copy of the WMSRadar.geo file with  whatever TRANSPARENT value that you
> need to have to get around this and just select the right map (for what
> is happening today :-).
> 
> For example, I have a USRadar.geo and a USRadar_black.geo.  Original has 
> TRANSPARENT of "0x00000000" and the _black has "0x0FFFFFFFF".  By the way,
> the issue that prompted me to do this for the USRadar map has not 
> reappeared
> in a while...
> 
> 73,
> 
> Kevin (K1KWP)
> 
> 
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