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> Hi Tom,
>
> Unrelated to getting EUMETSAT real-time access, I have a question
> regarding adding custom map backgrounds in v5.0 IDV.
>
> I have not had consistent results loading custom maps in shapefile
> format. The NWS county warning areas and U.S. counties seem to load and
> display ok as polygon or line shapefiles. But, one shapefile with point
> data that I created from ogr2ogr from a google kml file, which displayed
> fine in the qgis viewer/editor, would not display in IDV.
>
> I've read recently in IDVUSERS mailing list about some problems loading
> shapefiles.
>
> Question... does IDV load and display point shapefiles...or just
> polygons/polylines? Perhaps, my conversion from kml to shapefile had
> some issues, which may be the case.
>
Hi Walter,
We don't support the point shapefiles, maybe need to revisit this feature
in the near future.
Yuan
> My goal is to have point background map with soaring contest turnpoints
> and a label of a name or number. Perhaps a work around is to use the IDV
> Text (ASCII) Point Data Format and add a custom station model plot. I'd
> also like to plot airspace special use airspace polygons. For that, I'd
> need to load the appropriate shapefile.
>
> Walt Rogers
>
>
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PCW-252179
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed