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[IDV #XWN-444614]: NEXRAD level II data ingest

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  • Subject: [IDV #XWN-444614]: NEXRAD level II data ingest
  • Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:56:12 -0600
> 
> hi,
> I have some radar basedata in the format of NEXRAD level II of Beijing and 
> other cities in China, but these radar coordinations can not be found in list 
> of "Radar Locations" widget, and idv view got wrong (lat, lon) fitting in (0? 
> 0), I search the mailgroup and set the "idv.rbi" as follows, but the station 
> in the nexradstns.xml do not displayed in  the radar locations widget list. 
> Any one knows about this?
> Thanks a lot !
> 
> ====================================================================
> <!-- The list of station table xml files  -->
> <resources name="idv.resource.locations"  loadmore="true">
> <resource location="%USERPATH%/nexradstns.xml"   id="nexrad"/>
> </resources>
> ====================================================================
> 
> P.S.,the content of nexradstns.xml like this, only add on station for now:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <stationtable name="NEXRAD Sites" category="Weather">
> <station idn="109200" id="GZR" name="GuangZhou" st="GZ" co="CN" 
> lat="23:00:18" lon="113:21:18" elev="180.8"/>
> </stationtable>
> 
> 
Chentao,
      For the nexradstns.xml file, you should add the type to second line:
<stationtable name="NEXRAD Sites" category="Weather" type="radar">

Give it a try.

Yuan

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XWN-444614
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed