I sent curt the pic directly I think the attachment was removed when I sent it to the group. It shows the radar image overlayed on the map in uiview ChrisVe3zo
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: David A Aitcheson <[email protected]> Date: 2017-07-09 16:09 (GMT-05:00) To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]>, "Curt, WE7U" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS radar overlay 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. > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
