[Xastir] Feature Request re: Shapefile maps

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

All,

A script could be written and run under root/sudo privileges that does 
the WGET, then puts in zero length files as placeholders if there are no 
files present in the download package. Xastir would have to accept zero 
length as a legit file.

Now, there would have to be some way of forcing a map regen to update 
these files. I know that when I get down to county level, the rendering 
does take a bit.

This would be a good help at displaying SBW's since they are not coming 
over WXSVR, at least here.

Now back to my Irish Coffee.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Gerry Creager wrote:
> 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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