[Xastir] Feature Request re: Shapefile maps

[Gerry Creager]

I need to look into this and see if I can produce something similar. 
Ken Waters does these for storm-based warnings. I currently have a WFS 
that handles this but I don't generate shapes.  I can also provide WMS 
for these.

gerry

Eric Germann wrote:
> I'm experimenting with the GIS maps from the NWS at 
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/regsci/gis/shapefiles/
> 
> They work, with one caveat:  They don't show up in the Map Chooser (even 
> on a map re-scan) if they have 0 shapes in the shape file.
> 
> Is there any way, or a pointer to the code to fix it myself and submit a 
> diff back, where this is handled.  To get around it, I copied a shape 
> file with polygons over it to the same file, did a rescan so they show 
> up, then put them back after I selected them.
> 
> Essentially, in this case, the map chooser should consider a 0 shape 
> shapefile valid.  This is a fun one to reproduce because the source 
> files at NWS are changed on a 1 minute basis.
> 
> Which leads to second question, does Xastir automatically re-render 
> these when they change or is there something I need to do to make it so.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> EKG
> N1ICS
> 
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