[Xastir] Weather Alerts

[Dale Seaburg]

I hate to be so thick-skulled, but I am having no luck with Weather  
Alerts.  I tried to follow the wiki before bothering the list.  This  
link:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Xastir

mentions under the heading "Enabling Weather Alerts" to see the  
README.MAPS link for installing NOAA shapefile maps.  Following that  
link gives no installation instructions for Weather Alerts.  Could  
someone please fix this.

However, I did find, after doing a search for weather in the wiki, a  
reference to the Xastir Maps page.  Under the heading "Where to Get  
Maps for Xastir", I see that one uses the ./get-NWSdata (after cd'ing  
to the /usr/local/lib/xastir sub'dir).  When I execute that script,  
it says I already have the shapefiles.

I verified that both shapelib and pcre were in the configure script  
log file when I configured and built xastir.  Not sure I could find  
it in my make script log file.  I did see a comment near the  
map_shp.c part of the compile log.

So, what could I be doing wrong for no weather alerts to be  
displayed?  We had some severe weather a couple of weeks ago as  
viewed on the WunderMap radar URL.  I saw two kinds of alerts:  
flooding and high winds (green polygon and yellow polygon), but  
nothing visible in xastir.

Also, I see no radar.  It makes no difference which of the three  
weather radar maps I choose: US, TX or WMS.  Again, very frustrating.

How do I go about troubleshooting this mess?

73 - Dale.  KG5LT