[Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files

[Alex Carver]

The latest files at the download site are in a single zip:

http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/county/data/c_15jl09.zip

So it looks like the names in the old one didn't get changed.

--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> From: Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com>
> Subject: [Xastir] Problems with lighting up Counties, NWS files
> To: xastir at xastir.org
> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 2:24 PM
> 
> I discovered a problem with the NWS downloaded files which
> get put
> into /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties and get lit up by
> WXSVR or
> it's new replacement.  The "get-NWSdata" script is
> what goes out and
> snags these and installs them.
> 
> On my laptop at home it's not lighting up counties. 
> On the desktop
> machine everything's working fine.  They have the same
> zone
> Shapefiles installed.  The laptop was updates via
> get-NWSdata just
> last night and Xastir restarted.
> 
> Here's a bit of the directory entires for the above
> mentioned
> directory for each:
> 
> Desktop:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    262487 2008-10-03
> 11:15 c_03oc08.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   
>    167 2008-06-03 07:38 c_03oc08.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  14214600 2008-10-03
> 11:15 c_03oc08.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     25996
> 2008-10-03 11:15 c_03oc08.shx
> 
> Laptop:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   
> 414594 2009-06-24 05:17 c_03oc08.dbf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   
>    167 2008-06-03 07:38 c_03oc08.prj
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root 
> 14212700 2009-06-24 05:17 c_03oc08.shp
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root 
>    25988 2009-06-24 05:17 c_03oc08.shx
> 
> See the problem?  The files are different sizes but
> the same name.
> Also the timestamps on the three files with new sizes are
> also
> changed.
> 
> Perhaps someone could verify whether manually
> downloaded/exploded
> files look like the top listing or the bottom
> listing.  I don't know
> yet whether the files at the download site are messed up or
> whether
> our script or tools that it uses are doing it to us. 
> It needs
> investigation though.  I suspect it's the zip file at
> the download
> site that has the problem.
> 
> The problem may be as simple as they've updated the ZIP but
> forgot
> to change the name, and the DBFAWK signature of the new
> file is
> different so Xastir doesn't know how to use them...
> 
> This might explain why some people lately have been
> complaining that
> alerts aren't lighting up!
> 
> -- Curt, WE7U.           
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