On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:55:51PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ru...@bogodyn.org> flavor, containing: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:31:22PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <kj...@sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing: > > Can someone point me to the instructions of how to get NWS warnings to > > show up on my map in Xastir? > > Looks like there is no one spot where all the instructions are clearly laid > out. Rather, it is scattered about in README.Getting-Started and other > places. Even the Wiki doesn't have it clearly stated in a single spot. This > is unfortunate and should be fixed.
I have tried. There is a new "HowTo:Weather Alerts" page on the wiki, linked to from the main HowTo page. Please let me know if this is not enough to get you going. > So here goes: > > - You must have NWS shapefiles downloaded and installed in your > maps directory. Get them using the script "get-NWSdata" included in the > Xastir scripts directory. That's /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts if you > installed from source. Leave out the "local" if you've gotten via a > binary package. > > This script must be run as root (or better yet, with sudo). > > NWS changes the format of their shapefiles often, and this requires us to > chase their file format a lot. If you're not running a recent version of > Xastir, you might have trouble getting suitable shapefiles from NWS. > This > one script is the single most frequently updated file in Xastir. > > The script in Xastir 2.1.0 or git master was updated recently enough that > it should work and get you the right files. > > - Then, after you've downloaded the NWS shapefiles, you must get them > indexed. > A restart of Xastir will do it, but you could also use the menu entry > "Map->Configure->Index: Add new maps" > > - You must be connected to an on-line APRS-IS source that sends weather > alerts. Only those of a particularly high level of urgency are sent > on the normal rotate.aprs.net or rotate.aprs2.net servers. > Firenet.aprs2.net will have the lower level alerts (advisories and > watches, not just warnings). > > - You must enable display of weather alerts in the map menu and NOT select > "Disable all maps"! > > That should be it. > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY > Tijeras, NM > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Tom Russo KM5VY Tijeras, NM echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir