[Xastir] Weather maps are now black

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:

> 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.

Another way to handle this problem Gerry is just not to fix it.
We've coded around it now, so the default transparent colors in the
WMSRadar.geo file cover the changing background.  If other colors
appear, we can add yet more transparent values to the .geo.

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