[Mapserver-users] Weather / Climate information using MapServer

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Thu Sep 4 15:31:15 EDT 2003


On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 12:50  PM, Geoffrey Rowland wrote:

> Anyone doing this?  Specifically I'm trying to get  min/max temps and 
> precip layers on top of a shp file I am using. I have some data from 
> NOAA, however I'm not familair with it's format.  I can open it up in 
> GrADS and view the data on a map, so I would think *in theory* I 
> should be able to get this data into a format that mapserver can work 
> with, I'm just not sure how to go about doing that. I also have access 
> to safe softwares feature manipulation engine if that would be of any 
> help (for translations).  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> I am getting the data from the following locations
>
> precip
> ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/precip/wd52ws/us_daily/
>
> max/min
> ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/precip/wd52ws/us_temp/
>
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Here's where to start:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc40/raster-howto.html

cheers,
Sean


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