20060109: NEXRAD locations

>From: "Salottolo Greg" <address@hidden>
>Organization: NTSB
>Keywords: 200601091524.k09FOr7s009632 station tables

Hi Greg-

>Good Morning:
>
>Just wondering has the file been updated to reflect greater precision 
>in the NEXRAD lat/lon list?

Sorry, that fell through the cracks.  It's not in the 1.3b1 distribution. 
I made an update today to use DD:MM:SS precision (from McIDAS).

Download the one from:

ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/idv/tables/nexradstns.xml

and place it in your <home>/.metapps/DefaultIdv directory,
where <home> is your home directory. (e.g., /home/salottg
on Unix or C:/Documents And Settings/salottg on windows).

In that directory, you will find a file idv.rbi.  Edit that
and change the lines:

  <!-- The list of station table xml files  -->
  <resources name="application.resource.locations">
  </resources>

to 

  <!-- The list of station table xml files  -->
  <resources name="application.resource.locations">
    <resource location="%USERPATH%/nexradstns.xml"   id="nexrad"/>
  </resources>

The next time you start the IDV, you will pick up the new 
station lat/lon information.  Let me know if you find any errors
in the table.

This will be in the next release.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Unidata Support [mailto:address@hidden]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:20 PM
>To: Salottolo Greg
>Subject: 20050323: NEXRAD locations 
>
>
>>From: "Salottolo Greg" <address@hidden>
>>Organization: NTSB
>>Keywords: 200503231905.j2NJ5Rv2004947 IDV radar locations
>
>Hi Greg-
>
>Thanks for your help on this.  Our nexradstns.xml was generated
>from either a GEMPAK or McIDAS list.  Since either of these has
>DD:MM:SS precision, it looks like we only took 2 decimal places
>when we converted to decimal degrees.  I'll just redo the
>list again when I get a chance and keep them as DD:MM:SS.
>We probably only handled decimal degrees when we generated the
>list, but now that either works, we'll keep it in the most
>common form.
>
>Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
>
>Don Murray

Don Murray
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