I discovered a problem with the NWS downloaded files which get put into /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties and get lit up by WXSVR or it's new replacement. The "get-NWSdata" script is what goes out and snags these and installs them.
On my laptop at home it's not lighting up counties. On the desktop machine everything's working fine. They have the same zone Shapefiles installed. The laptop was updates via get-NWSdata just last night and Xastir restarted. Here's a bit of the directory entires for the above mentioned directory for each: Desktop: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262487 2008-10-03 11:15 c_03oc08.dbf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 2008-06-03 07:38 c_03oc08.prj -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14214600 2008-10-03 11:15 c_03oc08.shp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25996 2008-10-03 11:15 c_03oc08.shx Laptop: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414594 2009-06-24 05:17 c_03oc08.dbf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 2008-06-03 07:38 c_03oc08.prj -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14212700 2009-06-24 05:17 c_03oc08.shp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25988 2009-06-24 05:17 c_03oc08.shx See the problem? The files are different sizes but the same name. Also the timestamps on the three files with new sizes are also changed. Perhaps someone could verify whether manually downloaded/exploded files look like the top listing or the bottom listing. I don't know yet whether the files at the download site are messed up or whether our script or tools that it uses are doing it to us. It needs investigation though. I suspect it's the zip file at the download site that has the problem. The problem may be as simple as they've updated the ZIP but forgot to change the name, and the DBFAWK signature of the new file is different so Xastir doesn't know how to use them... This might explain why some people lately have been complaining that alerts aren't lighting up! -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> 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
