Re: [Xastir] Radar Overlay Question

2007-07-29 Thread John Ronan
On 29 Jul 2007, at 15:21, Gerry Creager wrote: You have a little homework. You'll have to snag it using a correctly built .geofile. The image alone is here:http://www.met.ie/ weathermaps/latest_radar.gif You then have to get the coordinates of the image corners and try to determine if it

Re: [Xastir] Radar Overlay Question

2007-07-29 Thread Gerry Creager
You have a little homework. You'll have to snag it using a correctly built .geofile. The image alone is here:http://www.met.ie/weathermaps/latest_radar.gif You then have to get the coordinates of the image corners and try to determine if it's projected in a polar stereographic form, as so man

Re: [Xastir] Radar Overlay Question

2007-07-29 Thread Luka
Hi, John! If I were you, I'd make a script in cron.hourly that would wget picture and save it into directory where you have Xastir pictures. Only thing left to do is to force Xastir to reload maps. Here's what I'd do: #!/bin/bash cd /where/you/have/pics/ wget -r http://www.met.ie/weathermaps/lat

[Xastir] Radar Overlay Question

2007-07-29 Thread John Ronan
Morning, I wonder if one of you guys could give me a pointer as to how I could grab the image in http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp and attempt to make it a transparent overlay for xastir? Any thoughts appreciated. Regards de John EI7IG -- John Ronan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, +353-51-30