On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote:
As you can see in the first paragraph, I assumed from the 15 minute update interval, that the get_NWSdata script would have to be run, too.
No, as get_NWSdata just snags the weather alert shapefiles from NWS, not from Gerry's server. The weather alerts which we receive over INET or RF are short single-line APRS messages which specify zones to light up. Those zones are then pulled from the previously-loaded fairly static Shapefiles that we get from NWS.
looked at the shape files, but perhaps they know when to get updates, and have the URL built-in to accomplish this.
Nope.
If we're talking about county weather alert data, they need to be updated often during the bad weather, right?
Yea, but those contain either lists of zones to light up that are in the NWS Shapefiles, or they contain polygons that get drawn in Xastir itself (nothing to do with Shapefiles in this last case). -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
