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>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> >Organization: Universal Weather >Keywords: 200209042117.g84LH2Z27483 MAP Robert, Sorry I couldn't respond to this before now. >I think some of your sites that are interested in the Gulf of Mexico >might find the GOM Oil Lease area maps useful. I have placed >LEASEMAP in the mcidas incoming directory and protrac.gsf >in the gempak incoming directory. Thanks! The LEASEMAP map database is very interesting. As a curiosity, how did you create this McIDAS map file? The reason I ask is that I include an application in my distribution of McIDAS that will create a McIDAS map database file from several ASCII file formats: WXP, GEMPAK, and McIDAS ASCII (which is actually a format for information one can get from a web site). The application, MAKEMAP, is part of a section I call XRD (for the McIDAS XRD code). To build the XRD section of the distribution, one has to run: make xrd make xrd.help make install.xrd After doing this, the applications executables and help files will be available to users McIDAS sessions. Tom