20050920: 20050919: NWX Map

Giovanni,

You can have area of NWX start up with South America or Brazil etc
by editing:

$GEMTBL/nwx/mapinfo.nwx

and adding GAREA entries such as

!NAME        GAREA
!( < 40 )   ( < 80 )
BRAZIL       BZ
SOUTH_AMERICA SAM

The GAREA entries can use names from $GEMTBL/stns/geog.tbl such as BZ and SAM.

The default map used by NWX is defined at compile time in 
$GEMPAK/source/programs/gui/nwx/nwx.c
in the line:
char              mapfil[9]="$MAPFIL=";

The default map file wll be hipowo.cia unless $MAPFIL is given a value.
You could for instance use:

char            mapfil[]="$MAPFIL=histbr.uni+hipowo.cia";

That would use the Brazillian states and the world map.
Note that this requres recompiling nwx. Also, you may want to modify the
draw.c draw_map() routine to have the string for "map" (line 74) reflect 
using multiple maps using different color/lines.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support







>From: Giovanni Dolif Neto <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200509201715.j8KHFRYJ028421

>Hello Steve/Tom
>
>I would like to have the map of South America when I start NWX. Indeed I would
>like to see the brazilian states divisin in this NWX map. I already have the
>brazilias states in NMAP2.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Cheers,  Giovanni
>
>
>Quoting Unidata Support <address@hidden>:
>
>> 
>> Giovanni,
>> 
>> The stations that NWX plots the red diamonds for in the METAR observation
>> selection is defined in $GEMTBL/nwx/master.tbl in the SFC_HRLY line,
>> and is sfstns.tbl by default.
>> 
>> You can modify this to sfmetar_sa.tbl which is my default table for dcmetr,
>> or whatever station table you use to decode your metar data.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >From: Giovanni Dolif Neto <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200509191108.j8JB84nX025387
>> 
>> >Hello,
>> >Do you know why I can't see the same METAR data at NWX as a can display in
>> NMA
>> > P2 ?
>> >In NMAP2 I can display much more data. How can I add these data to NWX?
>> >
>> >Thanks,  Giovanni
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >Giovanni Dolif Neto 
>> >Meteorologist (Msc.) - CPTEC/INPE
>> >http://www.cptec.inpe.br
>> >Tel.: 55 - (12) 3186-8459
>> >
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>-- 
>Giovanni Dolif Neto 
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