[Xastir] NWS radar overlay

[David A Aitcheson]

Chris,

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Dave
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On 07/09/2017 04:07 PM, Chris Pitre wrote:
> Pic attached shows radar image on uiview map. Sent from my Samsung
> Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: "Curt,
> WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> Date: 2017-07-09 15:54 (GMT-05:00) To:
> Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS radar overlay 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.