Re: [awips2-users] Maps Won't Display in Cave.

• To: Brian Bernard <brian.brianbernard@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [awips2-users] Maps Won't Display in Cave.
• From: Michael James <mjames@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:52:39 -0700

Brian,

Importing a shapefile into an existing table (such as mapdata.canada) will
corrupt that table.  Every shape file should be imported to a new mapdata
table name.  To fix this you will need to remove and reinstall the
awips2-server group.



Michael James
Unidata Program Center
Boulder, CO

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Brian Bernard <
brian.brianbernard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a self-induced problem. I was trying to import Canadian county
> shapefiles following the instruction at this page:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vde_BQh5GrDkeO6H-lQj_igRuUCO-jSJYjinjNyvxsE/edit?usp=sharing
> , when I seemed to have damaged the State/County Boundaries map. As a
> result, when I start Cave, the map is not displayed and that area of the
> screen is black.
>
> These are the errors I receive: "Paint error: 0:: The resource
> [State/County Boundaries] has been disabled." and "Maps database table
> "canada" is missing or invalid"
>
>
> Something must have got damaged in the database when I first attempted to
> import the shapefile.
>
>
> Brian Bernard
>
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