[Xastir] radar .geo idea: will it work?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dick Repasky wrote:

> At http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/radarproducts.html I see two overlays that

> Can I get these by modifying a copy of WMSRadar.geo to point to them?  If so,
> where do I find out what the layer names are? I've hunted through the nexrad
> website and googled everything I can think of without much luck.

Do their online docs talk about a WMS server at all?  If not, then
WSMRadar ain't going to get you there.  If so, then there's a way of
querying their server to get the metadata which describes the
various layers that are available.  I think I've done that query
from a browser before.  From the response you can construct a file
similar to WSMRadar.geo that would then send the right query to
their WMS server for Xastir's use.

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