[Xastir] ridge radars url

[Rick Green]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Kevin Paetzold wrote:

> In 2006 I made a tar file available which contained the .geo files for the
> local and regional ridge radars for use by xastir.  I recently noticed that
> they stopped working because the url changed. They used to use
> www.srh.noaa.gov but they now apparently need to use radar.weather.gov.
>
> As a result I updated the .tar.gz file I made available.  It is still
> referenced correctly in the wiki and in any case is still available at:
> http://www.townisp.com/~k1kwp/NWS_Ridge_geos.tar.gz
>
  Thanks!  The 'great lakes center' regional aggregation is currently 
displaying on my xastir 2.0.1 instance.

...I wonder, though...
  The lowest level 'ground clutter' reflections are displaying in a light 
grey, and they are obliterating far too much of the base map 
(OSM-tiled-osmarender).  Is it possible to change the filter level by some 
edit in the .geo file to specify the minimum reflection level to be 
displayed as non-transparent?
...or is there a rendering of the OSM maps available which renders the 
white background as transparent, so I could put the OSM map on top of the 
radar image?

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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