[IDV #OWO-748043]: Errors in reading mesonet data

> Greetings!
> 
> Would you mind sending a link to the file, or the actual file, that produced 
> this error?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sean
> 
> > Full Name: Song-Lak Kang
> > Email Address: address@hidden
> > Organization: Texas Tech Univ
> > Package Version: 3.0b1 build date:2011-07-01 17:24 UTC
> > Operating System: Mac OS X
> > Hardware: Java: home: 
> > /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home version: 
> > 1.6.0_24 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4)
> > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data:
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> >
> > ******************
> > Stack trace:
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > at visad.Tuple.buildTupleType(Tuple.java:170)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makePointObs(TextPointDataSource.java:2105)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:656)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:479)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2518)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:932)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2526)
> > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1844)
> > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1555)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1998)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1915)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1849)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1822)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943)
> > at 
> > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525)
> > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:547)
> > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> > at 
> > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> > at 
> > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1063)
> > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1091)
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Actually the files are derived West Texas Mesonet observations.
> Here are say the raw data and derived one.
> Thanks,
> 
> Actually the files are derived West Texas Mesonet observations.
> Here are say the raw data and derived one.
> Thanks,
> 
Greetings!

  Would you mind explaining how the data are laid out in the files? Is the 
latitude and longitude of the station(s) included? Also, exactly which steps 
did you take when trying to load in the data (and which file)?

Thanks!

Sean

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OWO-748043
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open