[IDV #TSZ-747127]: loading and interpolating point (station) data in IDV

> Full Name: Youssef
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: Masdar Institute
> Package Version: 5.3 build date:2016-05-23 19:17 UTC
> Operating System: Windows 7
> Hardware: Java: home: D:\IDV_5.3\jre version: 1.8.0_45 
> j3d:1.6.0-pre9-daily-experimental daily
> Description of problem: There was an error loading the data:
> Error creating data source:file.pointtext with: 
> C:\Users\ywehbe\Desktop\validation-subset\rainfall-tottals.csv
> Making grid parameters
> can't find lat/lon
> 

The error message explains the problem of your dataset. The iDV in general only 
support the geo located data.

Yuan
> ******************
> Stack trace:
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't find lat/lon
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makePointObs(TextPointDataSource.java:2172)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:668)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:488)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2578)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:961)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2586)
> at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1856)
> at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1579)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1979)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1896)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1830)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1803)
> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943)
> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:659)
> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:528)
> at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:550)
> 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:1215)
> at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243)
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: TSZ-747127
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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