[Xastir] NWS radar overlay

[David A Aitcheson]

Curt,

Dig back in the email archive a bit... *NWS changed the URL's for the
Ridge Radar feeds*. Do to my being semi-homeless I have not gotten a
chance to update the Ridge Radar Geo files or any of the other Geo files
that need to be brought up to date.

Dave
KB3EFS


On 07/09/2017 03:54 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2017, Chris Pitre wrote:
>
>> It was an add in for uiview called nwsget.
>> What it did was overlayed the nws radar image on the uiview map,
>> providing that you were using mapping software from precision
>> mapping. Which I was.
>> The nws enable feature is turned on and I was viewing the alerts on
>> the map when we had severe storms come thru on Friday.
>> The nws url was changed and now that add on is useless. 
>
> Roger. It's the use of the term "radar" that was confusing me. It
> sounds like you want the NWS alert areas lighting up. Yes, Xastir can
> do that. You need to be running the latest Xastir from Git (compiled
> yourself), and run the "get-NWSdata" script as root to snag the
> datafiles. That script should be in /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts
> directory once you've compiled/installed the latest version of Xastir.
>
> FWIW: I'm one of the two people generating the APRS packets that light
> up those alerts. I generate maybe half of the types, another guy
> generates the others.
>