[Xastir] Wx alerts

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, wb9bjq at charter.net wrote:

> I have not been able to see weather alerts with my installation of
> xastir.  I have the latest cvs version installed. I don't see them
> under the view menu nor the shading on the maps.  Weather alerts
> are enabled.  Anyone have any ideas?  Thanks

Have you installed the Shapefiles for this from the NWS?  Run this
as root:

     xastir/scripts/get-NWSdata

That should populate the /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties/ directory
with shapefiles, then Xastir should start showing you weather alerts
as long as you have these checked:

     Map->Enable Weather Alerts
and perhaps:
     Map->Enable Area Color Fills

And this unchecked:

     Map->Disable All Maps

However:  I'm seeing ZERO weather alerts show up in View->Weather
Alerts right now, which seems wrong for this time of year.  Perhaps
nobody is converting them and sending them out over APRS-IS or
Firenet.us at present?

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