[Xastir] WMSradar went black?!

[Rick Green]

I woke up this morning to a clear sunny day, and an xastir display that 
was totally black, or something close to black.
   Deselecting WMSRadar.geo allowed the underlying tigermap.geo to show 
thru.
   I remember an issue in the past where the 'background' level had 
changed, and what was appearing as black was no longer true black.
So I went to look at WMSradar.geo to see what value I had in there for 
TRANSPARENT, and realized that I had recently switched from the 'packaged' 
version of xastir to the CVS version on this machine, so I had versions of 
WMSradar.geo in both /usr/share/xastir... and /usr/local/share/...
   The version in /usr/local/share/... had only one TRANSPARENT value, 
0x010101, while the version in /usr/share/... had three values, with true 
black 0x000000 and true white 0xffffff in addition to the almost-black.
   I corrected the version in /usr/local/share/... and re-enabled 
WMSRadar.geo, and could still see my tigermap.  So far, so good.
   I then zoomed out several times until I was looking at the entire 
eastern US, and am not seeing any storm activity whatsoever.  I can't 
quite believe that we're experiencing quite that widespread a case of 
Severe Clear, so is the WMSRadar service just down at the moment?

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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