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> Organization: NCSA > Keywords: 199501032141.AA09986 Hi David, > > Does NASA Collage or XDataSlice provide map background for displaying > > netcdf data by using ENVISION? Thanks in advance. > > > > T.C. Yang > > National Weather Service > > > > 1) Collage and XDataSlice are NCSA products, not NASA. NASA however > funded the development of Envision. > > 2) Collage and XDataSlice do not provide map backgrounds. > > 3) Some of the IDL tools included with Envision do display > map backgrounds for data with lat/lon in the coordinates. > > 4) You should note that Envision, though still available, is no > longer a supported project as NASA decided not to renew its funding > for Envision. Thanks for answering this. I'm sorry to here Envision is no longer supported. Please let me know if the description of Envision in http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/utilities.html needs to be changed to reflect its status, and especially if Keith Searight should no longer be listed as a contact for further information. Thanks. --Russ