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

[Dick Repasky]

Looks like I'm out of luck. All I can find at NOAA is ftp and Unidata LDM.

Poking around at mesonet.tamu.edu turned up mostly missing pages. And,
wget
"http://mesonet.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/CONUSradar?SERVICE=WMS&request=GetCapabilities"
didn't turn up anything that looked close.

Finally, http://www.ogc-services.net/ didn't turn up anything interesting.

Too bad, I also had visions of writing something called APRS Storm Tracker that
would take a text feed of the data for a bounding box and produce APRS objects
for plain t-storms, severe t-storms and tornadic signatures.

Dick, KC9JLU

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 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.
>