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20040429: watch/warning polygons vs counties?

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  • Subject: 20040429: watch/warning polygons vs counties?
  • Date: 29 Apr 2004 16:00:59 -0600
Gerry,

GEMPAK has the capability of displaying affected watch counties as
the outline box, as the individual county polygons, or the centroid
marker. Similarly for warnings (polygon or markers).

In NMAP2, see the MISC items WTCH, WARN, WSTM (and WOU and WCN).
The configuration for each can be controlled by clicking on the
Edit source button which allows you to configure the county
outline color, line type, width etc and/or markers, labeling etc.

These same features exist in GPMAP for scripting of course.
See the PHELP on each for turning on/of features.

And of couse, you can always use BND to fill individual polygons for
your own interest using the $GEMTBL/bounds fields.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 15:59, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> Is there a utility for polygons vice counties?  I know NWS has someone 
> (Ken Waters) working on that, and he gave a poster on his work at AMS. 
> The direction I'm taking is similar, and collaborative to Ken's: Going 
> to GIS Shapefiles.  However, it shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish 
> something within gempak that could then be overlaid as a raster element.
> 
> Or am I missing something fundamental here?
> 
> Thanks, Gerry