[Xastir] Weather Alerts

[Clay Jackson]

Ok - I've got shapelib support, and zoom is well less than 8192 - the
alerts are ZONE alerts; but I do have the zone shapelib files.....

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:47 -0700, Tom Russo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:15:19PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Clay Jackson wrote:
> > 
> > > I just copied the shapefiles for counties, turned on Display Weather
> > > Alerts, and although xastir says we have two advisorys (snow in the
> > > mountains, finally); I'm not seeing anything on the map.
> > > 
> > > Does the display only trip when the alert first arrives, or am I doing
> > > something stupid?
> > 
> > Need Shapelib support compiled in.  Also need to put those things
> > into your Counties directory.  Can't remember whether you need to
> > index maps, but I don't think so.
> > 
> > If you zoom or pan and alerts are visible, it should display them.
> 
> A few weeks ago I fixed a mistake in some dbfawk files that prevented
> wx alerts to show up when zoomed far out --- this showed up when I fixed
> the shapefile handling to respect the display_level variable for polygons.
> If you're running a version of xastir from after the fix to map_shp.c but
> before the fixes to the dbfawk files, you'll only see wx alerts when zoomed
> in closer than zoom level 8192, I think.  Current CVS and the latest
> stable release would have it correct, though.
>