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> Thanks, guys. It works great (with a bit of tweaking to the station > model...). Now to see if I can make sense of buoy station obs... > alan > Alan, In tonights build will be a fix that allows for the specification of a "colspan" attribute. This is used to essentially concatenate the 5 different date columns (day,month,year,hour,minute) We also use it for the lat/lon N and E values. Attached is a point meta data preference file that you can copy to your: ~/.metapps/DefaultIdv directory. Now, when you load ion the csv file and the gui pops up in the upper right is a pull down menu that should list "Hurricane" and "Ships". Choose Ships and it will populate the form appropriately. On another note - serendipitiously we were just working this morning on being able to show track displays from text point data. This isn't complete yet but in the future you will be able to show this data as ship tracks. -Jeff Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KBZ-495057 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open
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