[Xastir] Feature Request re: Shapefile maps

[Gerry Creager]

Lemme get off 4 days of spring break and I'll push it your way tomorrow 
morning.

Sorry for the delay but between honey-do's, allergies, and wanting to 
make sure it's behaving properly, I want the delay...

gerry

Eric Germann wrote:
> 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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