[OZAPRS] WXSVR-AU Coastal Forecast Areas now available

[Ray Wells]

Geoff,

Thanks for all the work you're putting in. You sought feedback so here goes.

I ended up deleting all of my shp files and any accompanying files, and 
did a fresh installation with the files from your site to weed out any 
operator induced problems. However, I have issues.

With my old files I had coastal wind warning icons but no filled areas. 
The old files also showed a landmass warning boundary off the coast.

With the new files ....
there is no longer coastal wind warning icons
the landmass boundary is now the coastline
the eastern boundary of the North Coast maritime boundary (the one 60nm 
offshore) is shown as a dashed line
coastal district weather warnings such as MNC_STS have their eastern 
boundary about 20km out to sea (about where the zone boundary was shown 
with the old files.

I can't rule out distribution specific issues because if I read David 
correctly (we've been exchanging P emails) he isn't seeing these 
problems. David uses (K)Ubuntu (Debian based) and I use vanilla Debian.

Ray vk2tv

Geoff wrote:
> Yes - only one set can exist in the NWS directories.
> It's also a good idea to shut down the application before changing shp
> files, as they get cached by the applications.
>
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Ben Lindner
> Sent: Friday, 28 November 2008 5:34 PM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] WXSVR-AU Coastal Forecast Areas now available
>
> Do we have to delete the old files before installing the new ones
>
> Ben
> VK5JFK
>
> Geoff wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have just uploaded a new  z_aus28no08 and mz_aus28no08  to WXSVR-AU.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Please update your shapefiles to the latest versions and let me know if
>> there are any issues.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geoff  VK2XJG
>>
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