I've sometimes found that TAMU's weather maps seem to get stuck, so I
developed a quickie alternate geo file for the US composite NEXRAD from
Iowa State.
Copy this to a .geo file in your map directory and you'll be off and
running.
Cheers
Eric
N1ICS
#US Composite Radar image (Unidata/LDM/Gempak) n5jxs 2003 08 25
# Modified for accuracy, comments: n5jxs 2004 03 15 1400UTC
#
# Modified by N1ICS to use Iowa State Mesonet server instead of Texas A&M
# 2007-Oct-18
# If you want to get a different image-type, change the selection
# below by removing the '#' from the front of the URL, and placing
# a '#' before all URLs for image-types you don't want.
# I don't know what will happen if you have multiple URLs selected.
#URL http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.png
URL
http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/data/gis/images/unproj/USCOMP/n0r_0.png
# X Y Long Lat
TIEPOINT 0 0 -126.00000 50.00000
TIEPOINT 5999 2599 -66.00000 24.00000
IMAGESIZE 6000 2600
# Map Extent (50, -126) upper left to (24, -66) lower right (.01
degree per pixe
l)
#
# REFRESH tells your program just how often to retrieve the radar
# image. Images are recreated on the server every 6 minutes (720
# sec).
REFRESH 360
# Transparent tells the program and image handling software what
# color is to be considered transparent. In this case, it's white
# and valid for a 24-bit color map.
#TRANSPARENT 0xffffff
# The following should work for a 16-bit color map.
#TRANSPARENT 0x0ffff
# The following should work for all color maps, now.
#TRANSPARENT 0x0ffffffff
TRANSPARENT 0x000000000
#US Composite Radar image (Unidata/LDM/Gempak) n5jxs 2003 08 25
# Modified for accuracy, comments: n5jxs 2004 03 15 1400UTC
#
# Modified by N1ICS to use Iowa State Mesonet server instead of Texas A&M
# 2007-Oct-18
# If you want to get a different image-type, change the selection
# below by removing the '#' from the front of the URL, and placing
# a '#' before all URLs for image-types you don't want.
# I don't know what will happen if you have multiple URLs selected.
#URL http://mesonet.tamu.edu/gemdata/images/radar/01_USrad.png
URL http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/data/gis/images/unproj/USCOMP/n0r_0.png
# X Y Long Lat
TIEPOINT 0 0 -126.00000 50.00000
TIEPOINT 5999 2599 -66.00000 24.00000
IMAGESIZE 6000 2600
# Map Extent (50, -126) upper left to (24, -66) lower right (.01 degree per
pixel)
#
# REFRESH tells your program just how often to retrieve the radar
# image. Images are recreated on the server every 6 minutes (720
# sec).
REFRESH 360
# Transparent tells the program and image handling software what
# color is to be considered transparent. In this case, it's white
# and valid for a 24-bit color map.
#TRANSPARENT 0xffffff
# The following should work for a 16-bit color map.
#TRANSPARENT 0x0ffff
# The following should work for all color maps, now.
#TRANSPARENT 0x0ffffffff
TRANSPARENT 0x000000000
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