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Ray, NMAP does plot those products. The key being that you can only select one "image" type at a time, and it that is NCR, you can't overlay it with an image of NHI for instance. Yes, there is nothing special about the alphanumeric graphics that requires them to be in an image projection. They could be plotted as a misc data type, but that isn't set up for selecting individual stations at this point. So, at the moment, to overlay an image with storm tracks, meso cyclones, etc, the easiest way is to turn the overlay products into a VGF. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Ray Weber" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200502282337.j1SNbpv2028168 >I see the code and it looks to be able to handle the translation >to screen x/y of the storm data. Nmap2 wont plot this? > >Ray > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Unidata Support [mailto:address@hidden] >> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:38 PM >> To: address@hidden >> Cc: address@hidden >> Subject: 20050228: 20041103: NIDS alphanumeric graphic products >> >> >> >> 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 whe > re >> > 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 >> > >> -- >> **************************************************************************** >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >> (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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. >> > -- 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.