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Dear Kunal, We are able to successfully display your data with the following steps: . Go to the Dashboard, Data Choosers tab . Click on the General, Files node to the left . Select your file . Select a Data Source Type of "Text Point and Trajectory Data files" . Click the Add Source button. This action will take you to the Point Data panel . Select a delimiter of Space . Click the down arrow three times. This action will scroll you to your data. . At the bottom of the Point data panel, describe the fields. The first two are lat and lon. . Identify the third field with whatever name and unit you choose. . Click OK. This action will take you to the Field Selector. You are now ready to display your data. . We successfully viewed the data with the Gridded Fields option, Color Shaded Plan View. Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > my text file is not opening in IDV. it's not uploading the data. > here i am sending the text file please tell me can i open this file or not > ?? > > > > > address@hidden> wrote: > > > Dear Kunal, > > > > The time series data in the attachment are not geolocated. Please see > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/userguide/data/TextPointData.html > > . > > > > Best Wishes, > > > > Unidata IDV Support > > > > > Full Name: kunal > > > Email Address: address@hidden > > > Organization: NPL (New Delhi) India > > > Package Version: 4.0u1 build date:2013-03-29 18:10 UTC > > > Operating System: Linux > > > Hardware: Java: home: /home/kunal/IDV_4.0u1/jre version: 1.6.0_41 > > j3d:1.3.1 > > > 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:2106) > > > 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:2520) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:960) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2528) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1852) > > > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1599) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804) > > > 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(Unknown Source) > > > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > > > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: SJL-770384 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SJL-770384 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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