[Xastir] USRadar problems

[Gerry Creager]

ick Green wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> Send me the .geo file.  The radar images are there.  I just checked. 
>> And available via WMS, too.
>>
>  Here's what I think I'm using.  I've got about six on my system, and I 
> can never remember which directory xastir is looking in for this release 
> (1.9.1).
>   I grabbed this one out of /usr/share/xastir/maps/Online/ which is the 
> AUTOMAP directory listed in my current xastir.cnf file
> 
> #
> # $Id: USRadar.geo,v 1.4 2004/03/15 17:08:23 we7u Exp $
> #
> #US Composite Radar image (Unidata/LDM/Gempak) n5jxs 2003 08 25
> # Modified for accuracy, comments:  n5jxs 2004 03 15 1400UTC
> #
> # If you want to get a different image-type, change the selection
> # below by removing the '#' from the front of the URL, and placing
> # a '#' before all URLs for image-types you don't want.
> # I don't know what will happen if you have multiple URLs selected.
> URL     http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.png

There's an obvious problem on the system where I *thought* ImageMagick 
(and ( really do have a love-hate relationship with that package) was 
placing the converted imagery.  I'll look.

Replace the URL line with
URL	http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/01_USrad.gif

I cannot confirm the tiepoints immediately but as soon as I can, I will.

gerry
> #URL     http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.gif
> #URL     http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.jpg
> #URL     http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.tif
> #
> #
> #           X       Y       Long        Lat
> TIEPOINT    200     200     -123.00000  48.00000
> TIEPOINT    5999    2499    -65.00000   23.00000
> # Image extents: Lat: 23.0N to 50.0N, Lon: 65.0W to 125.0W (-65.0 to 
> -125.0)
> # Image size extents: X: 6000 pixels, Y: 2650 pixels (.01 deg/pixel)
> IMAGESIZE 6000 2500
> #
> # REFRESH tells your program just how often to retrieve the radar
> # image.  Images are recreated on the server every 6 minutes (720
> # sec).
> REFRESH 720
> # Transparent tells the program and image handling software what
> # color is to be considered transparent.  In this case, it's white
> # and valid for a 24-bit color map.
> #TRANSPARENT 0xffffff
> # The following should work for a 16-bit color map.
> #TRANSPARENT 0x0ffff
> # The following should work for all color maps, now.
> TRANSPARENT 0x000000000
> 
>  From what I remember, this is stock from the distro, with the only 
> change being the TRANSPARENT line, so I could overlay it on the tigermaps.
> 

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