[Xastir] Feature Request re: Shapefile maps

Eric Germann ekgermann at cctec.com
Sun Mar 16 13:04:05 EDT 2008


What's your WMS address for each of these?

EKG


Gerry Creager wrote:
> 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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