[Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files

[Gerry Creager]

Addendum.  You don't want to light up counties for weather warnings. You 
want to draw the polygons.

We changed to Storm Based Warnings for TOR, SVR, FFW and Special Marine 
18 months ago.  It's a better depiction of the at-risk area and doesn't 
require distracting so many folks who are not at significant risk.

gerry

Alex Carver wrote:
> --- On Sat, 8/1/09, Dale Seaburg <kg5lt at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Jason Godfrey wrote:
>>> Silly question, but I haven't been able to find the
>> answer the answer.
>>> Do you need to be connected to an internet server to
>> get these alerts,
>>> or is it possible for them to show up over RF?
>> OK, equally silly question - I've been away from xastir for
>> a few weeks - where do I go to get the updated shapefiles
>> and dbfawk file?   My memory seems to be a
>> leaky bucket...  hi hi  Actually, I've got too
>> many irons in the fire.  As they say, "Jack of all
>> trades, Master of none."
> 
> Answer to first silly question:  Only if your local I-gate is allowing the NWS message to pass from the Internet to RF.  Unless that happens you can't get them over RF.
> 
> Answer to second silly question:  The dbfawk file is in with the Xastir source code on CVS.  So you need to do a CVS update to get them.  The shapefiles can be obtained using the get-nws script as part of the Xastir source code or directly from the NWS GIS services:
> 
> http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/county/html/county.htm (county level)
> 
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/ (all GIS data)
> 
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