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Dave KB3EFS 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" <[email protected]> Date: 2017-07-09 15:54 (GMT-05:00) To: > Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]> > 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. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
