<P>Here is the GEO file I made.... all i have to do now is find a static URL for the image or write a script to update the URL. It would also be nice to make the green land mass color transpearent.</P>
<P>Wes</P>
<P>#<BR># $Id: USRadar.geo,v 1.4 2004/03/15 17:08:23 we7u Exp $<BR>#<BR>#US Composite Radar image (Unidata/LDM/Gempak) n5jxs 2003 08 25<BR># Modified for accuracy, comments: n5jxs 2004 03 15 1400UTC<BR>URL <A href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0604W5%2BGIF/311513W5.gif">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0604W5%2BGIF/311513W5.gif</A><BR># X Y Long Lat<BR>TIEPOINT 43 16 -95.000000 40.000000<BR>TIEPOINT 857 680 -65.000000 20.000000<BR># Image extents: Lat: 23.0N to 50.0N, Lon: 65.0W to 125.0W (-65.0 to -125.0)<BR># Image size extents: X: 6000 pixels, Y: 2650 pixels (.01 deg/pixel)<BR>IMAGESIZE 895 716<BR>#<BR># REFRESH tells your program just how often to retrieve the radar<BR># image. Images are recreated on the server every 6 minutes (720<BR># sec).<BR>REFRESH 1500<BR># Transparent tells the program and image handling software what<BR># color is to be considered transparent. In this case, it's white<BR># and valid for a 24-bit color map.<BR>#TRANSPARENT 0xffffff<BR># The following should work for a 16-bit color map.<BR>#TRANSPARENT 0x00000<BR># The following should work for all color maps, now.<BR>#TRANSPARENT 0x0ffffffff<BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: Gerry Creager N5JXS <GERRY.CREAGER@TAMU.EDU><BR>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:22:19 -0500 <BR>To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <APRSSIG@LISTS.TAPR.ORG><BR>Subject: Re: [aprssig] weather tracks <BR><BR>> Check out the NHC's RSS/XML info and see if they don't provide a tag <BR>> system to get the images. <BR>> <BR>> I've looked at it but don't have time to implement it on one of my <BR>> systems (hint, hint: if you get that figured out, could you clue me in?:-) <BR>> <BR>> 73, gerry <BR>> <BR>> Wes Johnston wrote: <BR>> > Does anyone know where I can get the 5 day tracking chart from NOAA in <BR>> > such a way that it is a static image name? Currently it is <BR>> > http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT06/refresh/AL0604W5%2BGIF/311513W5.gif , <BR>> > but this file name changes with every prejection they do. <BR>> > <BR>> > So far, the best thing I can think of to do is to run a CRON job on one <BR>> > of my webservers, WGET the NOAA homepage, parse it for the name of the <BR>> > picture and overwrite a GEO file every hour. <BR>> > <BR>> > Wes <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <BR>> > <BR>> > _______________________________________________ <BR>> > aprssig mailing list <BR>> > aprssig@lists.tapr.org <BR>> > https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager@tamu.edu <BR>> Network Engineering -- AATLT, Texas A&M University <BR>> Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.847.8578 <BR>> Page: 979.228.0173 <BR>> Office: 903A Eller Bldg, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> aprssig mailing list <BR>> aprssig@lists.tapr.org <BR>> https://lists.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig <BR></P><BR>