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>From: "Guilherme O. Chagas" <address@hidden> >Organization: UFRJ >Keywords: 200509052317.j85NHWjo014330 McIDAS MAP Hi Guilherme, >I've finished the adaptations required to convert the CPTEC ETA model output >to Gempak, and I'm about to finish also to our MM5 and WRF models. Expect to >see our models in IDD really soon! Excellent! >and now the questions... >I've tried to install McIDAS on my workstation at UFRJ, but I've got those >issues during make: >gcc -c -O -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -I../hdf/hdf/src -I../hdf/mfhdf/libsrc >-I../jpe >g -I../zlib -I../tiff/libtiff -I../libgeotiff enh24.c >enh24.c:9:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory >enh24.c:10:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory >enh24.c:11:21: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory >enh24.c:12:23: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory >enh24.c:14:24: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory >enh24.c:17:19: X11/X.h: No such file or directory >do I have to install an specific X11 development package? I'm currently >running Fedora Core 3. This says that a full development environment was not installed on the workstation. In particular, the include files and most likely the libraries needed for X windows development were not installed. You need to install the necessary packages (rpms) in order to build McIDAS from source. >Does the McIDAS v. 2002 had problems to overlay more than one kind of map over >a satellite image? No. >I was using the version installed at brisa to watch >Katrina, but when I tried to overlay a more detailed map over the original >contour, it would plot a non georeferenced map. Please dont spend much time >over this one, its an old unsupported version anyways :) The problem was most likely caused by incorrectly running the MAP command when trying to overlay on top of a satellite image. Here is one possible scenario: - display an image - draw a map specifying SAT or OLAY as the map type (correct) - run MAP specifying FILE= or specifying a map type that causes MAP to rewrite the navigation associated with the frame - try to run MAP again and there does not appear to be any navigation I would try the exercise again and this time be careful to not run a MAP command that rewrites the frame navigation. This is most easily done by including the PRP=SAT keyword combination on the command line. Please review the online or Users Guide pages on the MAP command for more explicit infomation. Cheers, Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+