[Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files

[Alex Carver]

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:

> From: Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 12:08 AM
> 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.

The one bad part about the switch is that I can't see the warning location on a simple interface like the D700 display.  Under the old county system, I could see the county FIPS codes so I knew which area was under a warning.