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Hi Glenn, > I see that the home cursor dialog now allows entry of a specific latitude and > longitude, > but the home marker doesn't go to that position on the map. It seems to be > off-set by > several miles. Thank you for letting us know, I'll make a note about this and we'll look into it further. > (Even using the KPHL airport identifier doesn't place the home maker where > the airport is.) Hmm, okay thanks for this as well. We'll look into this separately. > Thought you'd want to know this. (I'm not sure if the map offset error is > true only of the > home marker or other parts of the grid displays are also offset by several > miles in error?) Thanks for letting us know. We appreciate it! --Shay Carter She/Her/Hers AWIPS Software Engineer UCAR - Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: HLZ-775326 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.