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20000208: Creating a GEMPAK mapfile

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  • Subject: 20000208: Creating a GEMPAK mapfile
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:07:20 -0700
Bob,

There is a $GEMMAPS/cwa.nws map file already.
Garp has this map defined down at the very bottom of
the list of maps just below the RFC areas. You just have to
toggle it on for display.

You can specify map overlays in the GEMPAK programs as well
by specifying the map files in the $mapfil parameter like:

$MAPFIL = cwa.nws+hicnus.gsf+hipowo.cia
map=8/1/1+5/1/1+6/1/2

Is this the map that is requested, or do you mean the individual
zone/counties refered to be the FIPS/UGC code such as
at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/modernize/shapemap/zones/c11.htm

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Bob Rozumalski wrote:

> 
> 
> Steve;
> 
> One of the offices would like an overlay of their warning area 
> when viewing data in GARP/NAWIPS.  I believe that they have that
> lat/lon values defining the periphery of their warning area and I
> suppose that they would want to see this over a county map.
> 
> Is this possible?  Do you have any software to put a map file
> together?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
>