[Mapserver-users] Weather / Climate information using MapServer

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

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Gerry

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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/
> 
> 
> Geoffrey,
> 
> The data files are "raw" floating point according to the README.  It would
> be pretty easy to write a GDAL compatible .aux file describing them.   I 
> can
> help with that offline if you can't find enough info in the GDAL "PAux" 
> format
> page.
> 
> But because the data is not 8bit raster there are issues with how it will
> get displayed in MapServer.  You can let MapServer rescale the data to 8bit
> on the fly, but depending on how exact you want to be you might be 
> better off
> reclassifying it outside mapserver first.  Note that MapServer does not
> currently support raster classes for raster values outside the range 0-255
> even though that might be ideal for situations like this.
> 
> Best regards,
> 

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