[Xastir] Feature Request re: Shapefile maps
Gerry Creager
gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Sun Mar 16 10:25:49 EDT 2008
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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