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20050228: 20041103: NIDS alphanumeric graphic products

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  • Subject: 20050228: 20041103: NIDS alphanumeric graphic products
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:37:51 -0700
Ray,

The image/display calls imsimg which calls the relavent
display of alphanumeric graphics through imnids (not the gpnids program).

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: "Ray Weber" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200502282317.j1SNHdv2025248

>
>Hi
>
>I'd like to take a crack at getting this to work if you can point me to where 
> in 
>the nmap source it calls gpnids for NCR.
>
>Ray Weber
>MA Skywarn
>
>
>
>
>>Steve,
>
>>Am I correct, though, that you still cannot plot the MESO, HAIL..etc from
>>the
>>table generated by gpnids from the NOAAPort NCR product?
>
>>Thanks.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: Robert Dewey
>Cc: mmaxwell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; GEMPAK support
>Sent: 11/3/2004 2:12 PM
>Subject: 20041103: NIDS alphanumeric graphic products
>
>Robert et al.,
>
>These products (STI, NME, NHI, VTV, DPA, NVW) can be displayed in
>NMAP2 as from the image selection widget, but not overlaid onto other
>images at this time because NMAP2 is configured to a single image type
>selection. Note that when displaying the NVW (Vad Wind) product, you 
>will want to turn off the map & latlon lines in the NMAP2 Map dialog!
>
>You can however, overlay these alphanumeric products onto images using
>the command line GEMPAK programs.
>
>To overlay thracks, hail, mesocyclones etc onto imagery, creation of a
>VGF for use in NMAP2 is possible as Robert mentions:
>http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/nmap2/gempak
>_storm_example.gif
>
>Steve Chiswell
>Unidata User Support
>Ray Weber KA1JJM
>EC WMA
>VP Network Operations
>Digital Media Connection Internet 
>
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