[OZAPRS] WXSVR-AU Coastal Forecast Areas now available

David djmunn at bigpond.com
Fri Nov 28 13:21:37 EST 2008


Hi Geoff..just in from shopping .....very quickly d/l and installed the 
files in Xastir
works like a charm.....
I very much appreciate your hard work to help all the APRS ops out in 
Hamland....

looks great on the screen here

73 David VK4BDJ



Geoff wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I have just uploaded a new  z_aus28no08 and mz_aus28no08  to WXSVR-AU.
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> These updated files move the Coastal forecast areas into the z_ file so that
> they will now work correctly with Xastir.
>
> I've also been able to 'clean up' the coastline so that the land areas do
> not extend out to sea, and the coastal areas no longer extend inland.
>
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> At this stage the mz_ file is not used by any of our products, as we cannot
> duplicate the state codes required for Xastir to work with this file - these
> are used for Hurricane warnings in the US, and if we duplicate them we'll be
> sending bogus data into their network.
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> Please update your shapefiles to the latest versions and let me know if
> there are any issues.
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> Regards,
>
> Geoff  VK2XJG
>
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